The Guaraní Under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
22.11.2005
Verlag
Stanford University PressSeitenzahl
304
Maße (L/B/H)
22.8/15.1/2 cm
Gewicht
422 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8047-5495-8
This ethnographic study is a revisionist view of the most significant and widely known mission system in Latin America-that of the Jesuit missions to the Guaraní Indians, who inhabited the border regions of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. It traces in detail the process of Indian adaptation to Spanish colonialism from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries.
The book demonstrates conclusively that the Guaraní were as instrumental in determining their destinies as were the Catholic Church and Spanish bureaucrats. They were neither passive victims of Spanish colonialism nor innocent "children" of the jungle, but important actors who shaped fundamentally the history of the Río de la Plata region. The Guaraní responded to European contact according to the dynamics of their own culture, their individual interests and experiences, and the changing political, economic, and social realities of the late Bourbon period.
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