MEXICO MENNONITES - Frank Paubel
The Mennonite community is an Anabaptist Protestant religious movement that originated in Switzerland and Eastern Europe, having fled repression in the mid-16th century. Today, the majority of Mennonites can be found in many South American countries, including Mexico, where over 100,000 live.
I chose to meet a small colony of 200 families in the southeastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Promoting a traditional, non-violent way of life, the Mennonites' main activity is farming. In the midst of the global pandemic and its many confinements, I wanted to look at societies on the margins, less in touch with this exceptional event, by getting up close to a community that for decades has lived a reclusive, rigorous and sober lifestyle, outside the world, but not totally cut off from it, since they trade daily with the local Mexican population, and de facto with the outside world.
Published by , 2022
28 cm x 22 cm, 176 pages, new
ISBN 978-2-36980-148-1
The Mennonite community is an Anabaptist Protestant religious movement that originated in Switzerland and Eastern Europe, having fled repression in the mid-16th century. Today, the majority of Mennonites can be found in many South American countries, including Mexico, where over 100,000 live.
I chose to meet a small colony of 200 families in the southeastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Promoting a traditional, non-violent way of life, the Mennonites' main activity is farming. In the midst of the global pandemic and its many confinements, I wanted to look at societies on the margins, less in touch with this exceptional event, by getting up close to a community that for decades has lived a reclusive, rigorous and sober lifestyle, outside the world, but not totally cut off from it, since they trade daily with the local Mexican population, and de facto with the outside world.
Published by , 2022
28 cm x 22 cm, 176 pages, new
ISBN 978-2-36980-148-1
The Mennonite community is an Anabaptist Protestant religious movement that originated in Switzerland and Eastern Europe, having fled repression in the mid-16th century. Today, the majority of Mennonites can be found in many South American countries, including Mexico, where over 100,000 live.
I chose to meet a small colony of 200 families in the southeastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Promoting a traditional, non-violent way of life, the Mennonites' main activity is farming. In the midst of the global pandemic and its many confinements, I wanted to look at societies on the margins, less in touch with this exceptional event, by getting up close to a community that for decades has lived a reclusive, rigorous and sober lifestyle, outside the world, but not totally cut off from it, since they trade daily with the local Mexican population, and de facto with the outside world.
Published by , 2022
28 cm x 22 cm, 176 pages, new
ISBN 978-2-36980-148-1
