PROMISSORY PRESTATIONS: A YUCATEC VILLAGE BETWEEN RITUAL EXCHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT CASH TRANSFERS

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dc.contributor.advisorGuyer, Jane I.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberPoole, Deborahen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCervone, Emmaen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBerry, Sara S.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKeck, Margaret E.en_US
dc.creatorDapuez, Andres Franciscoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-23T04:37:57Z
dc.date.available2014-12-23T04:37:57Z
dc.date.created2013-12en_US
dc.date.issued2013-10-23en_US
dc.date.submittedDecember 2013en_US
dc.description.abstractReligion and development promise the people of a Mayan-speaking village of Eastern Yucatan, Mexico, regeneration and well-being. Through interrelated regimes of futurity, the implementation of cash transfers and ritual transactions unfold different aspects of reality. Drawing on twenty four months of ethnographic fieldwork, archival research and in-depth interviews with development officials in Yucatan, Mexico city and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, I explore what gift-giving, in particular, conditional and unconditional Cash Transfers (PROGRESA-OPORTUNIDADES and PROCAMPO) and cargo ritual exchange, contribute to these nested regimes of futurities. These regimes work to determine the sort of economy that should rule human life now, by teaching what should and should not be expected, developing moral anguish, physical endurance, recurrent joy and gratitude. Development prestations support a long-term transition based on personal, moral and intergenerational change while ritual transactions pattern the future in short-term cycles of ontic renewals that support the long-term enduring power of the elderly.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/37003
dc.languageen
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University
dc.subjectgifts, development.en_US
dc.titlePROMISSORY PRESTATIONS: A YUCATEC VILLAGE BETWEEN RITUAL EXCHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT CASH TRANSFERSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentAnthropologyen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropologyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorJohns Hopkins Universityen_US
thesis.degree.grantorKrieger School of Arts and Sciencesen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.namePh.D.en_US
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