Quiche Rebelde
Religious Conversion, Politcs and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala
Ricardo Falla(Author)
University of Texas Press
Published on 15. August 2001
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-292-72531-7 (ISBN)
Description
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. Quiche Rebelde examines what happened when Accion Catolica came into the Guatemalan municipio of San Antonio Ilotenango, Quiche, to convert its inhabitants. Ricardo Falla, a Guatemalan Jesuit priest and anthropologist, analyses 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. Ricardo Falla, a recipient of the LASA/Oxfam Martin Diskin Award, is Jesuit Superior of Zone 1 in El Progreso and Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Coordinator of Equipo de Reflexion, Investigacion y Comunicacion (ERIC) in El Progreso. Phillip Berryman is a professional translator who lives in Philadelphia.
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. Ricardo Falla, a recipient of the LASA/Oxfam Martin Diskin Award, is Jesuit Superior of Zone 1 in El Progreso and Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Coordinator of Equipo de Reflexion, Investigacion y Comunicacion (ERIC) in El Progreso. Phillip Berryman is a professional translator who lives in Philadelphia.
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Series
Edition
Univ of Texas PR ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Austin, TX
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
6 figures, 5 maps, 29 tables
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-292-72531-7 (9780292725317)
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