Quiche Rebelde: Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala - Couverture souple

Falla, Ricardo

 
9780292725324: Quiche Rebelde: Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0292725329 ISBN 13 : 9780292725324
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2001

Synopsis

Since the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century, the Maya population of Guatemala has been forced to adapt to extraordinary challenges. Under colonial rule, the Indians had to adapt enough to satisfy the Spanish while resisting those changes not necessary for survival, applying their understanding of the world to the realities they confronted daily. Despite the major changes wrought in their way of life by centuries of submission, the Maya have managed to regenerate, and thus maintain, their self-identity.

Among the major challenges they have faced has been the imposition of outside religions. Quiché Rebelde examines what happened when Acción Católica came into the Guatemalan municipio of San Antonio Ilotenango, Quiché, to convert its inhabitants.

Ricardo Falla, a Guatemalan Jesuit priest and anthropologist, analyzes the movement's origins and why some people became part of it while others resisted. He shows how religion was used as another tool to readapt to the changing environment-natural, economic, political, and social. His work is the first major empirical study of how change occurred in a Maya community with no serious loss of Maya identity-and how the process of conversion is related to more general processes of cultural change that actually strengthen ethnic identity.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ricardo Falla, a recipient of the LASA/Oxfam Martin Diskin Award, has been Jesuit Superior of Zone 1 in El Progreso and Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Coordinator of Equipo de Reflexión y Comunicación (ERIC) in El Progreso.

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Éditeur
University of Texas Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0292725329
ISBN 13 
9780292725324
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
295
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780292725317: Quiche Rebelde: Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0292725310 ISBN 13 :  9780292725317
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2001
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