Mixtec Evangelicals Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group / by Mary I. O'Connor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Connor, Mary I.

Contributor:

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 136 pages) : illustrations (black & white); digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Boulder University Press of Colorado 2016

Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

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"--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

"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 identifies globalization as the root cause of this process. She 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. The home communities have responded in a number of ways--ranging from expulsion of converts to partial acceptance and adjustments within the village--depending on the circumstances of conversion and number of converts returning.Presenting data and case studies resulting from O'Connor's ethnographic field research in Oaxaca and various migrant settlements in Mexico and the United States, Mixtec Evangelicals explores this phenomenon of globalization and observes how ancient communities are changed by their own emissaries to the outside world. Students and scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, and religion will find much in this book to inform their understanding of globalization, modernity, indigeneity, and religious change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures

Tables

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Ñuu Shaavi, The Land of Rain

Mixtecs and Modernity

San Juan Mixtepec

San Juan Diquiyú

Colonia Sinaí

Four Communities Compared

Mixtec Diaspora?

Concluding Remarks

Glossary

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607324249

1607324245

OCLC:

945376940