{"id":623,"date":"2024-06-05T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T15:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/?p=623"},"modified":"2024-06-13T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T13:25:56","slug":"6-8-6-9-yaxunah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/2024\/06\/05\/6-8-6-9-yaxunah\/","title":{"rendered":"6\/8 &#8211; 6\/9: Yaxunah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Image Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/echoesofthejourney.com\/community-tourism-yaxunah-led-women\/?lang=es\">&#8220;El turismo comunitario en Yaxunah lo lideran las mujeres,&#8221; <em>Echoes of the Journey<\/em> (18 February 2019)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday and Sunday, we&#8217;ll be guests in Yaxunah, a small Mayan town south of Chich\u00e9n Itz\u00e1. We&#8217;ll stay with host families, meet local Mayan language students from Valladolid, help out the community with some small projects, swim in the cenote, and visit the Yaxunah archaeological site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going into Yaxunah with no context may leave you confused. What is the relationship between Yaxunah and the state of Yucat\u00e1n? What do people do for a living? How are they connected to the broader Mexican and global economy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we go, please read the following chapter from the U.S. anthropologist Chelsea Fisher&#8217;s <em>Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucat\u00e1n<\/em> (2023). In this chapter, Fisher discusses the history of Yaxunah and the community&#8217;s recent collaboration with the Michelin Star chef and restauranteur Ren\u00e9 Redzepi, who used corn from its <em>milpa<\/em> at his luxury pop-up restaurant Noma Mexico in Tulum. The article offers both a great overview of Yaxunah&#8217;s history and a sense of how small communities in the rural Yucat\u00e1n are adapting to changing economic and cultural traditions. Plus our host, El\u00edas, is quoted in the piece! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-504ee02c-2c3f-4361-a14a-1a4fa66b88b2\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/files\/2024\/06\/Rooting_in_a_Useless_Land_Ancient_Farmers_Celebrit._-_1._The_Celebrity_Chef_Lands_in_Yaxunah.pdf\">Rooting_in_a_Useless_Land_Ancient_Farmers_Celebrit._-_1._The_Celebrity_Chef_Lands_in_Yaxunah<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/files\/2024\/06\/Rooting_in_a_Useless_Land_Ancient_Farmers_Celebrit._-_1._The_Celebrity_Chef_Lands_in_Yaxunah.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-504ee02c-2c3f-4361-a14a-1a4fa66b88b2\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve also found a few YouTube videos about the city: some made by the community, others made by visitors like ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UOMVobpBSFw?si=bI0LynWzXDdZ3JDh\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?si=-UVNsL1Yj1lEJvkv&amp;list=PLBB62B01D516C5797\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XyCTPAhZKJw?si=8MuKIMf9I70zlof-\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we go, think about&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What do you hope to get out of spending two days in a very rural community? What do you want to learn?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What moments of &#8220;culture shock&#8221; can you anticipate?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do you think the people of Yaxunah will think when they see 26 U.S. college students come into town? <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How will you behave differently with your host families? How can you be a good guest in their homes?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source: &#8220;El turismo comunitario en Yaxunah lo lideran las mujeres,&#8221; Echoes of the Journey (18 February 2019) On Saturday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15580,"featured_media":653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readings","has-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/mxpassport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}