Book Reviews y,j- esting history of culinary tourism and the marketing of tequila and mes- cal. M. Bianet Castellanos analyzes the impact of Cancún on Maya com- munities tfirough an ethnography of a Maya town that experiences heavy migration to tourist attractions. She pays particular attention to Maya per- ceptions of tbe industry and its impact on their community. The last essay, written by travel writer Barbara Kastelein, meditates on various articula- tions of travel in Mexico, from the decay of Acapulco to growing resistance to travelers in Oaxaca. What all of this points to in the future remains very much up in the air. In the conclusion. Berger and Wood offer the possibility that, as was the case during the "good neighbor" days, tourism may offer some hope for cross-cultural understanding, despite its highly problematic history out- lined in this collection. Certainly, as such a large part of Mexico's economy, the tourist industry is here to stay. In staking out a rich and detailed history of that industry, the contributcirs to this collection have provided a major contribution to efforts to make that industry more ethical, humane, and stable for the communities it affects. DOI 10.1215/00141801-1333859 2000 Years of Mayan Literature. By Dennis Tedlock. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xi + 465 pp., introduction, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth.) Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University I admire the simplicity of this book's title, unadorned as it is by trendy buzz- words. But it does require the reviewer to explain what kind of book this is; or rather, what kind of book it is not. It is not a compendium of texts in (or translated fropi) Mayan languages. With close to five hundred oversize pages, one might expect the volume to be a comprehensive reference toolto such literature, but it is not. It is also not a monograph or full-length work of literary criticism. There is plenty of analysis and interpretation, but no obvious thesis around which discussion is built. Instead, Dennis Tedlock has written a hybrid book, one that is a tad eccentric but ultimately highly rewarding. Parts of the book present excerpts from texts in their original Mayan language (predqminantly Classic Ch'olan, K'iche', and Yucatec —or "Yukatek"); parts of it present excerpts in translation; parts provide visual material (photographs and drawings of carved glyphs, codex pages, and colonial-period alphabetic