By Mary I. O'Connor
ISBN-10: 1607324237
ISBN-13: 9781607324232
Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of 4 Mixtec groups in Oaxaca, detailing the method during which financial migration and spiritual conversion mix to alter the social and cultural make-up of predominantly folk-Catholic groups. The e-book describes the consequences at the domestic groups of the Mixtecs who shuttle to northern Mexico and the us looking for salary exertions and go back having switched over from their rural Catholic roots to Evangelical Protestant religions.
O’Connor identifies globalization because the root reason for this method. She demonstrates the ways in which neoliberal rules have compelled Mixtecs emigrate and the way migration presents the contexts for conversion. Converts problem the set of customs governing their Mixtec villages by means of refusing to take part within the Catholic ceremonies and social gatherings which are on the middle of conventional village lifestyles. the house groups have answered in a few ways—ranging from expulsion of converts to partial attractiveness and alterations in the village—depending at the conditions of conversion and variety of converts returning.
Presenting information and case reviews because of O’Connor’s ethnographic box study in Oaxaca and diverse migrant settlements in Mexico and the USA, Mixtec Evangelicals explores this phenomenon of globalization and observes how old groups are replaced through their very own emissaries to the surface international. scholars and students of anthropology, Latin American reviews, and faith will locate a lot during this ebook to notify their knowing of globalization, modernity, indigeneity, and spiritual change.
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