Mixtec evangelicals : globalization, migration, and religious change in a Oaxacan Indigenous group / Mary I. O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Connor, Mary I., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mixtec Indians--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)--Religion.

Mixtec Indians.

Mixtec Indians--Migrations.

Return migrants--Mexico--Oaxaca (State).

Return migrants.

Return migration--Mexico--Oaxaca (State).

Return migration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 161 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2016

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor and return having converted from their rural Catholic roots to Evangelical Protestant religions. O’Connor demonstrates the ways that neoliberal policies have forced Mixtecs to migrate and how migration provides the contexts for conversion. Converts challenge the set of customs governing their Mixtec villages by refusing to participate in the Catholic ceremonies and social gatherings that are at the center of traditional village life. Home communities have responded in a number of ways—ranging from expulsion of converts to partial acceptance and adjustments within the village.

Contents:

chapter 1. Ñuu Shaavi, the land of rain

chapter 2. Mixtecs and modernity

chapter 3. San Juan Mixtepec: Ñuu Vicu, the land of clouds

chapter 4. San Juan Diquiyú

chapter 5. Colonia Sinaí: los expulsados

chapter 6. Four communities compared

chapter 7. Mixtec diaspora?

chapter 8. Concluding remarks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY

Description based on e-publication, viewed on February 27, 2018.

OCLC:

972570589