Mixtec Evangelicals : Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group / / by Mary I. O'Connor
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| Autore: |
O'Connor Mary I
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| Titolo: |
Mixtec Evangelicals : Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group / / by Mary I. O'Connor
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| Pubblicazione: | Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 136 pages) : illustrations (black & white); digital file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 299.789763 |
| Soggetto topico: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General |
| Classificazione: | SOC002000 |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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"--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"-- | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Mixtec evangelicals |
| ISBN: | 1-60732-424-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910148658503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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