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- catalog abstract ""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 Guarani Indians, who inhabited the border region of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. It traces in detail the process of the adaptation of the Guarani to Spanish colonialism from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries." "This book demonstrates conclusively that the Guarani 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 Rio de la Plata region. The author suggests that a multiplicity of cultural processes helped condition the encounter between the Guarani and the Spaniards. The Guarani 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." "More broadly, the book permits a rigorous comparison with studies by ethnohistorians of Mexico, Peru, and other parts of Latin America, and it furthers our understanding of the dialectics of colonialism and native peoples both in the past and present."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12813105.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""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 Guarani Indians, who inhabited the border region of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. It traces in detail the process of the adaptation of the Guarani to Spanish colonialism from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries." "This book demonstrates conclusively that the Guarani 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 Rio de la Plata region. The author suggests that a multiplicity of cultural processes helped condition the encounter between the Guarani and the Spaniards. The Guarani 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." "More broadly, the book permits a rigorous comparison with studies by ethnohistorians of Mexico, Peru, and other parts of Latin America, and it furthers our understanding of the dialectics of colonialism and native peoples both in the past and present."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-284) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. The invasion from within -- Early encounters -- The footprints of Saint Thomas -- Daily life -- pt. 2. The invasion from without -- From resistance to rebellion -- The Guaraní in the aftermath of the expulsion of the Jesuits -- Our warehouses are empty: Guaraní responses to the reorganization of the missions -- Guaraní cultural resiliency and reorientations.".
- catalog extent "xii, 290 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Guaraní under Spanish rule in the Río de la Plata.".
- catalog identifier "0804736022 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Guaraní under Spanish rule in the Río de la Plata.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Guaraní under Spanish rule in the Río de la Plata.".
- catalog subject "323.1/198382082/09033 21".
- catalog subject "F2230.2.G72 G35 2003".
- catalog subject "Guarani Indians Government relations.".
- catalog subject "Guarani Indians Missions.".
- catalog subject "Jesuits Missions Paraguay.".
- catalog subject "Seven Reductions, War of the, 1754-1756.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. The invasion from within -- Early encounters -- The footprints of Saint Thomas -- Daily life -- pt. 2. The invasion from without -- From resistance to rebellion -- The Guaraní in the aftermath of the expulsion of the Jesuits -- Our warehouses are empty: Guaraní responses to the reorganization of the missions -- Guaraní cultural resiliency and reorientations.".
- catalog title "The Guaraní under Spanish rule in the Río de la Plata / Barbara Ganson.".
- catalog type "text".