Crafting selves: the lives of two Mayan women
Cone, C.A.
Annals of Tourism Research 22(2): 314-327
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0160-7383 DOI: 10.1016/0160-7383(94)00079-4Document Number: 571461
This article gets to the heart of individual difference and response to tourism impacts. It examines the personal reflections of two Highland Maya women in Mexico. Distinctions in craft, gender relations, types of community ties and personalities leads to distinct gender identities: one woman constructs a hyper-indigenous ethnic self, while the other crafts a more national-modern self. The women express how and why they have made choices and adaptations as they negotiate changes in their life stimulated by participation in tourism work. Because both women are unmarried and outside of conventional patriarchal relationships, their independence is all the more marked.
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