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Incidents Of Travel In Chichen Itza

This film depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists and 1920s archaeologists all contend to "clear" the site of the Maya city of Chichen Itza in order to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of "Maya" while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans.

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  • "This film depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists and 1920s archaeologists all contend to "clear" the site of the Maya city of Chichen Itza in order to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of "Maya" while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans."@en
  • "This original ethnographic video depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists, and 1920s archaeologists all contend to "clear" the site of the antique Maya city of Chichen Itza in order to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of "Maya" while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans. The setting is the spring Equinox when a shadow said to represent the Maya serpent-god Kukulkan appears on one temple pyramid. As more than 40,000 New Age spiritualists and secular tourists from the United States and Mexico converge to witness this solar phenomenon, the video depicts the surrounding social event as a complicated entanglement of expected dualisms concerning tourism. Going beyond previous films that reduce tourism to neo-colonial and exoticizing social relations, this video portrays a Maya cultural site where US New Agers -- rather than local Mayas -- appear as exotic ritualists who are on display for other secular tourists and for local Mayas. While the video does examine representations of Mayas by visiting New Agers as part of globalizing discourses on the exotic and evolution, it also shows how during the ongoing economic crisis resident Mayas struggle against the Mexican state -- rather than against tourists -- that regularly "sweeps" them from the tourist zone in order to anchor the nation in an image of pure antiquity. This video also asks what kind of fieldwork is possible at such a spectacle and it questions the status of ethnographic authority as people from the various groups converging on the event, including the anthropologist-videomakers, ironically trade positions as well as compete to speak about the Maya."
  • "This original ethnographic video depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists and 1920s archaeologists all contend to "clear" the site of the antique Maya city of Chichen Itza. The goal is to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of "Maya" while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans. As more than 40,000 New Age spiritualists and secular tourists form the United States and Mexico converge to witness the spring Equinox, the video depicts the surrounding social event as a complicated entanglement of expected dualisms concerning tourism -- Container."@en
  • "Ce documentaire relate comment les archéologues des années 1920, l'Etat du Mexique, les touristes ou les adeptes du New Age ont repris, chacun à leur façon, l'héritage de la cité maya de Chichen."
  • "Summary: This original ethnographic video documents the conflicting agendas apparent at a Spring Equinox festival at Chichen Itza. There are New Age spiritualists, the Mexican state, tourists and archaeologists all attempting to "clear" the site of the ancient Mayan city in order to produce their own unobstructed, idealized vision of "Maya." At the same time, the local Mayas themselves are struggling to occupy the site as vendors and artisans benefiting from the tourist trade. It is the New Agers who are on display, rather than the local Mayans, and the video considers the implications for fieldwork of such conflicts."@en
  • "This video depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists and 1920s archaeologists all contend to "clear" the site of the Maya city of Chichen Itza in order to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of "Maya" while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans."
  • "This video depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists and 1920s archaeologists all contend to "clear" the site of the Maya city of Chichen Itza in order to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of "Maya" while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans."@en
  • "This original ethnographic video depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists, and 1920s archaeologists all contend to "clear" the site of the antique Maya city of Chichen Itza in order to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of "Maya" while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans. The setting is the spring Equinox when a shadow said to represent the Maya serpent-god Kukulkan appears on one temple pyramid."@en

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  • "Documentary"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Films ethnographiques"
  • "Encoded moving images"@en
  • "Nonfiction films"@en
  • "Ethnographic films"@en
  • "Documentary films"@en

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  • "Incidents Of Travel In Chichen Itza"@en
  • "Incidents of travel in Chichén Itzá"@en
  • "Incidents of travel in Chichén Itzá"
  • "Incidents of travel in Chichen Itza"@en
  • "Incidents of travel in Chichen Itza"

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