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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.

Mixtec Indians --- Return migrants --- Return migration --- Religion. --- Migrations.

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The Mixtec, or the people of Savi ("Nation of the Rain God"), one of the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, made their home in the highlands of Oaxaca, where they resisted both Aztec military expansion and the Spanish conquest. This book presents and interprets the sacred histories narrated in the Mixtec codices, the largest surviving collection of pre-Columbian manuscripts in existence. In these screenfold books, ancient painter-historians chronicled the politics of the Mixtec from approximately a.d. 900 to 1521, portraying the royal families, rituals, wars, alliances, and ideology of the times. By analyzing and cross-referencing the codices, which have been fragmented and dispersed in far-flung archives, the authors attempt to reconstruct Mixtec history. Adding useful interpretation and commentary, Jansen and Perez Jimenez synthesize the large body of surviving documents into the first unified narrative of Mixtec sacred history.

Manuscripts, Mixtec. --- Mixtec Indians --- Historiography. --- Genealogy. --- Social life and customs. --- Mixteca Indians --- Mixteco Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Mixtec manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian) --- Anthropology --- Deer --- Lord --- Monte Albán --- Toltec

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The Mixtec civilization (of Oaxaca, Mexico) is one of the most interesting to survive from pre-colonial Mesoamerica. Among its characteristic products were highly artistic pictographic codices depicting the history and dynasties of its city-states. This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico, outlines the history of their decipherment, current questions, discussions and methodologies relating to readings, social organisation, religion and historical drama, and surveys the six centuries of Mixtec history covered in the texts.

Manuscripts, Mixtec. --- Picture-writing --- Mixtec language --- Mixtec Indians --- Writing. --- History. --- Mexico --- History --- Ideography --- Pictographs --- Pictography --- Mixtec manuscripts --- Writing --- Archaeology --- Hieroglyphics --- Inscriptions --- Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian) --- Manuscripts, Mixtec --- 003.32 --- 091 <4> --- 091 <72> --- 091 <73> --- 091 =97 --- 809.7 --- 809.7 Amerikaanse talen. Amerikaanse Indianentalen --- Amerikaanse talen. Amerikaanse Indianentalen --- 003.32 Ideografische en logografische schriften --- Ideografische en logografische schriften --- 091 <72> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Mexico --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Mexico --- 091 <73> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 091 <4> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Europa --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Europa --- 091 =97 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Talen uit Noord-Amerika en Centraal-Amerika --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Talen uit Noord-Amerika en Centraal-Amerika