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,
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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