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Fine copy in softcover. 290pp 8vo. Spain. N° de ref. del artículo 022162
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.
Acerca del autor: Barbara Ganson is Associate Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University.
Título: The Guarani Under Spanish Rule in the Rio De...
Editorial: U.S.A.: Stanford University Press
Año de publicación: 2005
Encuadernación: Soft cover
Condición: Near Fine
Edición: 1st Edition