| Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876 Contributor(s): Rugeley, Terry (Author) |
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ISBN: 029277107X ISBN-13: 9780292771079 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2001 Annotation: "This is a major new work on nineteenth-century Mexico that contributes to our understanding of popular religion, the nature of political conservatism, and the nature of local politics.... It represents the most innovative and creative scholarship now being undertaken in Mexican history...and will be widely used in classes and discussed by scholars." -- William H. Beezley, Professor of History, University of Arizona In the tumultuous decades following Mexico's independence from Spain, religion provided a unifying force among the Mexican people, who otherwise varied greatly in ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Accordingly, religion and the popular cultures surrounding it form the lens through which Terry Rugeley focuses this cultural history of southeast Mexico from independence (1821) to the rise of the dictator Porfirio Di az in 1876. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused archival material, Rugeley vividly reconstructs the folklore, beliefs, attitudes, and cultural practices of the Maya and Hispanic peoples of the Yucata n. In engagingly written chapters, he explores folklore and folk wisdom, urban piety, iconography, and anticlericalism. Interspersed among the chapters are detailed portraits of individual people, places, and institutions, that, with the archival evidence, offer a full and fascinating history of the outlooks, entertainments, and daily lives of the inhabitants of southeast Mexico in the nineteenth century. Rugeley also links this rich local history with larger events to show how macro changes in Mexico affected ordinary people. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Latin America - Mexico - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 277.260 |
| LCCN: 00029909 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.71" W x 9.38" (1.12 lbs) 365 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Mexican - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the tumultuous decades following Mexico's independence from Spain, religion provided a unifying force among the Mexican people, who otherwise varied greatly in ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Accordingly, religion and the popular cultures surrounding it form the lens through which Terry Rugeley focuses this cultural history of southeast Mexico from independence (1821) to the rise of the dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1876. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused archival material, Rugeley vividly reconstructs the folklore, beliefs, attitudes, and cultural practices of the Maya and Hispanic peoples of the Yucatán. In engagingly written chapters, he explores folklore and folk wisdom, urban piety, iconography, and anticlericalism. Interspersed among the chapters are detailed portraits of individual people, places, and institutions, that, with the archival evidence, offer a full and fascinating history of the outlooks, entertainments, and daily lives of the inhabitants of southeast Mexico in the nineteenth century. Rugeley also links this rich local history with larger events to show how macro changes in Mexico affected ordinary people. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rugeley, Terry: - Terry Rugeley is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. |