Converting California : Indians and Franciscans in the missions /
This book is a compelling and balanced history of the California missions and their impact on the Indians they tried to convert. Focusing primarily on the religious conflict between the two groups, it sheds new light on the tensions, accomplishments, and limitations of the California mission experie...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2004.
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Colección: | Yale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- California's missions as instruments of social control
- Indians at contact
- Junípero Serra and Franciscan evangelization
- The Indians of San Diego say "no!"
- Serra refuses to turn back
- Fermin Francisco Lasuen and evangelization
- Evangelization in Serra's shadow
- The only heritage their parents gave them : syphilis, gonorrhea, and other diseases
- Music and conversion
- Indian resistance to missionization
- Assessing California's missions.