Espiritualismo at the U.S.-Mexican Border Region: A Case Study of Possession, Globalization, and the Maintenance of Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781433152283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 222 str.

Rodolfo Otero

Opis

This study is a sensitive, empathetic, and beautifully detailed account of the Mexican religious movement Espiritualismo Trinitario Mariano as practiced in the U.S.-Mexican border region. Espiritualismo at the U.S-Mexican Border Region offers a salient portrait of a changing religion and society in Mexico.

Recenzje

"Espiritualismo at the U.S.-Mexican Border Region seeks to confirm the existence of a dimension that supports the reality of immateriality that is beyond the usual dimensions associated with human life. Rodolfo A. Otero takes us to the U.S.-Mexico border region-a region fraught with inequalities of multiple sorts and of intense and dynamic linguistic, cultural, economic, and social changes-to provide us with a firsthand, finely tuned, ethnographic narrative and analysis of the manner in which transborder peoples resurrect and participate in Espiritualismo temples in order to contend with these circumstances. Class jumps, ethnic and cultural shifts, grave economic disparities, and linguistic experimentation lead parts of the population to inquire and join with others, like and unlike themselves, in concert to gain a kind of identity resource that buttresses these constant demands on their many selves that negotiates the daily stress of such an environment. Transborder living accentuates these dynamics, and in a kind of ethnogenesis, the espiritualistas enter into realms of immateriality through possession to deal with their material reality. This is indeed crossing borders of many sorts, and this fine work takes us there in the long tradition of exemplary anthropological analysis and presentation." -Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, Regents' Professor, School of Transborder Studies and Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Preface - Espiritualismo at the U.S.-Mexican Border - Espiritualismo and the Religious Field in Mexico - Espiritualismo in Mexicali - Cátedras, Sano y Buen Consejo, Discernimiento, and Desarrollo/The Intellectual Aspect of Espiritualismo - Curaciones in Mexicali - Curaciones in Calexico - A Final Assessment of Espiritualismo and Espiritualista Participation in the U.S.-Mexican Border Region - Index.

O autorze

Rodolfo A. Otero holds a Ph.D. in anthropology and is a professor at El Camino College in Torrance, California. He has studied religious change and symbolism at the U.S.-Mexican border and is the author of the article "The Transformation of Identity Through Possession Rituals in Popular Religion."