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Mixtec Evangelicals

Mixtec Evangelicals

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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.

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Keywords

  • anthropology
  • Catholic Church
  • Evangelicalism
  • Indians of mexico, antiquities
  • Indians of mexico, religion
  • Mexico
  • Migrations
  • Mixtec
  • Mixtec Indians
  • modernity
  • Puerto Rico
  • Religion
  • Return migrants
  • return migration
  • San Juan
  • Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
  • Society & Social Sciences
  • Sociology & anthropology
  • United States
  • village

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DOI: 10.5876/9781607324249

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