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Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree : Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830-1949 /

Franciscan missions were an influential aspect of frontier life in South America during the century after 1830, when newly established republics steadily imposed their jurisdiction over vast indigenous territories. Erick Langer explores the role of these missions among the Chiriguano people of the B...

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Autor principal: Langer, Erick Detlef
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The "Chiriguano wars" : Indian warfare and the establishment of the missions
  • The Franciscans
  • Death and migration : the population decline of the missions
  • Daily life and the development of mission culture
  • Conversion, chiefs, and rebellions : relationships of power on the missions
  • Missions and the frontier economy
  • Outside relations and the decline of the missions
  • From the Chaco war to secularization, 1932/1949
  • Comparisons.