Juan de La Cruz, Venancio Puc, and the Speaking Cross

Bibliographic Data

ID8870495
AuthorsNelson Reed (Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author), Nelson A Reed
Year1997
Volume53
Issue4
Pages497-523
Publication date1997-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1008146
OpenAlexW2007556823
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

The Caste War of Yucatán, beginning in 1847, was the most successful revolt by a native people in the new world. The Maya almost drove the whites from the peninsula, and although they were in turn forced back into the uninhabited forest of eastern Yucatán, they defended themselves there for many years, maintaining a certain independence to this day. Their successful resistance was based on the refuge zone of dense forest, on the availability of weapons and munitions from adjoining British Honduras, on the appearance of a prophet who created a new religion and on the subsequent appearance of a leader who used that religion to form an independent society. New information has become available in recent years on this important nativistic movement; this article reviews the origins of the Cross, the nature of its prophet, Juan de la Cruz, and the achievements of his successor, Venancio Puc, without whom the new religion would not have survived

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Caste · Ethnology · Geography · Humanities · Independence (probability theory · Maya · Peninsula · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Successor cardinal · Yucatan peninsula · Ecology · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Law

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