When Cultures Clash: Revisiting the 'Spanish-Chamorro Wars'

BY FRANCIS X. HEZEL

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DESCRIPTION

When Cultures Clash: Revisiting the 'Spanish-Chamorro Wars' offers the reader additional insights on the arrival of Spanish missionaries to the Marianas in 1668, calling into question standard textbook narratives of forced conversion, rapid cultural change, precipitous decline, and the loss of Chamorro identity. According to author Francis X. Hezel, SJ, the clash of the cultures was real, but Chamorro people may have had more power in determining their fate than earlier historians traditionally thought.

PRODUCT DETAILS

• GENRE: History
• BINDING: Paperback - 99 pages
• PUBLISHER: Northern Mariana Islands Council for Humanities
• PUBLICATION DATE: 2015
• ISBN: 978-1-935198-04-8
• DIMENSIONS (W x H x D): 6.5" x 9" x .25"
• WEIGHT: 0.65 lb

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Francis X. Hezel, SJ, is a Jesuit priest who has lived and worked in Micronesia for over four decades, most of this time in Chuuk and Pohnpei. He served as a teacher and later director of Xavier High School for fifteen years. In 1972 he was also named director of Micronesian Seminar, the church based research pastoral institute established to engage in public education throughout the Micronesian region. He served in this position until 2010.

During his years with Micronesian Seminar, Hezel organized dozens of workshops on a variety of public issues and gave personal presentations at many conferences organized by others. He produced over 70 video documentaries for local broadcast, including a seven hour series on the history of Micronesia. A self-taught historian, Hezel has published twelve books and more than a hundred articles on Micronesia. His works include two volumes on the history of Micronesia: The First Taint of Civilization and Strangers in Their Own Land. He has also written a monograph and a handful of journal articles monographs on the early Spanish evangelization and colonization of the Marianas. His recent writings include The New Shape of Old Island Culture, an analysis of cultural change since World War II, and Making Sense of Micronesia, an attempt to offer a practical guide to the culture of the islands.