Mission culture on the upper Amazon : native tradition, Jesuit enterprise & secular policy in Moxos, 1660-1880 /

Mission culture on the upper Amazon : native tradition, Jesuit enterprise & secular policy in Moxos, 1660-1880 /

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Author / Creator:	Block, David, 1945-
Imprint:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1994.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Jesuits -- Missions -- Bolivia -- Moxos. Jesuits. Mojo Indians -- Missions. Indians of South America -- Missions -- Bolivia -- Moxos. Indians of South America -- Missions. Missions. Mojo Indians -- Missions. Moxos (Bolivia) -- History. Beni (Bolivia) -- History. Bolivia -- Beni. Bolivia -- Moxos. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11111072

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ISBN:	0585287821 9780585287829 0803212321 9780803212329
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Based on the author's (Ph. D.) thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	Until recently, historians of the Christian missions in the New World have seen missionaries either as saints and martyrs or as brutal disrupters and oppressors. Both the apologists and detractors of mission enterprise have concentrated solely on the missionaries, regarding the native populations either as childlike beneficiaries or as mutely suffering victims. With the growth of ethnohistory as a field of research, new research has sought to reconstruct the situations, the reactions, and the strategies of native groups, thereby seeing the native peoples of the Americas as active agents in their own history. In Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon, David Block describes the formation of a new society in the Moxos region of the Amazon basin, in what is now northern, or lowland, Bolivia. This society began with the arrival of the Jesuits in the region. The mutual synthesis that became Jesuit mission culture followed, with Moxos Indian cultural survival and adaptation continuing after the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. With the cataclysmic onset of the rubber boom, the entire region was plunged into a period of severe exploitation and conflict that persists to this day. Block's nuanced treatment of the mission encounter - one extending over a large time period - permits a balanced understanding of the mission enterprise, native response, and the cultural syntheses that ensued.
Other form:	Print version: Block, David, 1945- Mission culture on the upper Amazon. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1994 0803212321
Govt.docs classification:	U5001 T355 -1994

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Item Description:	Based on the author's (Ph. D.) thesis.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index.
ISBN:	0585287821 9780585287829 0803212321 9780803212329