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The Guarani Under Spanish Rule in the Rio De La Plata - Couverture souple

Ganson, Barbara

 
9780804754958: The Guarani Under Spanish Rule in the Rio De La Plata
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0804754950 ISBN 13 : 9780804754958
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Ganson is Associate Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804754950
ISBN 13 
9780804754958
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
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Personne responsable
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