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Mission culture on the upper Amazon : native tradition, Jesuit enterprise & secular policy in Moxos, 1660-1880 /

Until recently, historians of the Christian missions in the New World have seen missionaries either as saints and martyrs or as brutal disrupters and oppressors. Both the apologists and detractors of mission enterprise have concentrated solely on the missionaries, regarding the native populations ei...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Block, David, 1945-2021
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1994.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The setting
  • The Jesuit century
  • The missions
  • Mission Indians: gentiles and neophytes
  • The missionaries: fathers and brothers
  • Mission culture under Spanish rule
  • Moxos to Beni: the dissolution of mission culture.