Manufacturing otherness
Subtitle: missions and indigenous cultures in Latin America
By: edited by Sergio Botta
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781443851602
Subjects: Missions; History; Indigenous peoples; Religion; Christianity and culture
Description: The discovery of the New World offered European civilisation the chance to generate a process of circulation of its own cultural values - the "spiritual conquest" - that has no comparable precedents. The missionary orders played an important role during this "Westernisation of the world, " not only as key players in the spread of Christian values, but also as mediators between different worlds. Indeed, missionary practices imposed the dominating culture's values and institutions on the vanquished peoples. At the same time, they also promoted the circulation of new knowledge and the negotiation between different cultures during the age of a global integration of space. This book looks at the vast field of study concerning the history of missions from a specific viewpoint. Firstly, it focuses on "local" processes, singling out specific case studies to be used for a general reflection. On the other hand, it refocuses the attention on the Indigenous cultures - which the missionaries helped to bring to light in the field of Western history - showing how they succeeded in entering the areas of negotiation created by missionaries, and in producing their own cultural subjectivity.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Manufacturing otherness : missions and indigenous cultures in Latin America / Sergio Botta; title: Towards a missionary theory of polytheism : the Franciscans in the face of the indigenous religions of New Spain / Sergio Botta; title: The doctrine of Juli : foundation, development and the new identity in a shared space / Virginia Battisti Delia; title: Jesuits and Indians in the borderlands (Vice-Royalty of Peru, 16th-18th centuries) / Nikolai Rakutz; title: Making the indigenous speak : the Jesuit missionary Diego de Rosales in colonial Chile, 17th century / Rafael Gaune; title: Negation and exaltation of the sertanistas of São Paulo in the Discourses of Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, D. José Vaissette and Gaspar da Madre de Deus (1756-1774) / Michel Kobelinski; title: Demonym cartography : native peoples and inquisition in Portuguese America (18th century)? / Maria Leônia Chaves de Resende; title: Christian bodies, other bodies : processes of conversion and transformation in northeastern Amazonia / Vanessa Elisa Grotti; title: Indian missionary or pastor? : reflections on a religious trajectory in the Amazon / Paride Bollettin; title: The indigenist missionary council : a Brazilian experience between culture and faith / Marcos Pereira Rufino; title: Religious conflicts, missionary action and indigenous activism in the western Brazilian Amazon / Sidnei Clemente Peres; title: Seeing is believing? : vision and indigenous agency in the Anglican evangelisation of the Paraguayan Chaco / Alejandro Martínez; title: The hidden heritage / Valéria Nely Cézar de Carvalho.