Quiché Rebelde: Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala

by Ricardo Falla

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292725329
• ISBN13: 9780292725324
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"