The Guaraní under Spanish rule in the Río de la Plata
Presents a revisionist view of a mission system in Latin America - that of the Jesuit missions to the Guarani 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.
Print Book, English, 2003
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Stanford University Press, Stanford (California), 2003
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XII, 290 p. : il., mapas ; 23 cm
9780804754958, 0804754950
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Introduction I Part One:The Invasionfrom Within 1. Early Encounters 17 2. The Footprints of Saint Thomas 30 3. Daily Life 52 Part Two: The Invasionfrom Without 4. From Resistance to Rebellion 87 5. The Guarani in the Aftermath of the Expulsion of the Jesuits 117 6. Our Warehouses Are Empty: Guarani Responses to the Reorganization of the Missions 137 7. Guarani Cultural Resiliency and Reorientations 164