Tourism in the Mundo Maya: Inventions and (mis)representations of Maya identities and heritage

Archaeologies

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 353-383

  Magnoni, Aline ^a   Ardren, Traci ^b   Hutson, Scott ^c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heritage; Maya identities; Representation; Tourism; Yucat n

Indexed keywords

EID: 42349090870     PISSN: 15558622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11759-007-9042-8     Document Type: Article

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