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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153561203321

Autore

O'Connor Mary I.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

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

Disciplina

299.789763

Soggetti

Mixtec Indians - Mexico - Oaxaca (State) - Religion

Mixtec Indians - Migrations

Return migrants - Mexico - Oaxaca (State)

Return migration - Mexico - Oaxaca (State)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.