Transformación religiosa y desintegración de la comunidad aymara tradicional en el norte de Chile

By Patricio Hernán Tudela Poblete

Subjects: Religion, Evangelistic work, Aymara Indians, Social conditions, History

Description: "Detailed examination based on archival research of sociocultural transformation among Aymara of northern Chile during 19th and 20th centuries focuses particularly on introduction of new belief systems developed in response to modernization. Also examines how processes of modernization, nationalism, and secularization promoted the loss of traditional forms of community organization and ethnic identity. Significant contribution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.