Quiché Rebelde: Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala (Translations from Latin America Series, ILAS) [Hardcover]

Ricardo Falla (Author), Philip Berryman (Translator), Richard N. Adams (Foreword), Richard Falla (Author)

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Series: LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series | Publication Date: August 15, 2001

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.

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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 Reflexión, Investigación y Comunicación (ERIC) in El Progreso. Phillip Berryman is a professional translator who lives in Philadelphia.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: University of Texas Press; 1 edition (August 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0292725310
• ISBN-13: 978-0292725317
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,495,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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