Introduction | 1
Cristóbal Gnecco and Adriana Schmidt Dias
Part I: Alternative Readings of Heritage: Subjects, Alterization, and the Different Meanings of the Past
Crisis of the "Heritage Order": Disputed Representations of the Jesuit Missions' Past | 23
Guillermo Wilde
Semiotic Policies in Conflict at São Miguel Arcanjo Mission (Brazil) | 48
Adriana Schmidt Dias
Teaching Missions, Training Citizens: The California Missions as Curriculum | 65
Elizabeth Kryder-Reid
Native Heritage and the California Missions: A Collaborative Approach at Mission Santa Clara | 88
Lee M. Panich and Charlene Nijmeh
Heritage at Stake: The Contemporary Guarani and the Missions | 112
Cristóbal Gnecco
Part II : Local Appropriations of the Historical Meanings of the Missions
Uses and Meanings of the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay | 131
Maximiliano von Thüngen
Claiming the Missions as Indigenous Spaces | 153
Lisbeth Haas
Reclaiming Cha'alayash through Applied Decolonization:
Intervening and Indigenizing the Narrative in, around, and about California'sSites of Conscience | 169
Deana Dartt
Violence, Destruction, and Patrimonialization of the Missionary Past:
The Tohono O'odham Memory, the Silenced Voice of the Magical Town Magdalena de Kino | 192
Edith Llamas
Conclusion: The Missions as Heritage | 221
Cristóbal Gnecco
Editors' Acknowledgments | 233
List of Contributors | 235
Index | 239
