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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Block, David, 1945-
Imprint:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1994.
Description:	xiii, 240 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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. El Beni (Bolivia) -- History. Bolivia -- Beni. Bolivia -- Moxos. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1577979

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ISBN:	0803212321 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Based on the author's (Ph. D.) thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
List Of Abbreviations
Introduction
I. The Setting
II. The Jesuit Century
III. The Missions
IV. Mission Indians: Gentiles and Neophytes
V. The Missionaries: Fathers and Brothers
VI. Mission Culture Under Spanish Rule
VII. Moxos to Beni: the Dissolution of Mission Culture
Conclusions
Appedix: Sources of Demographic Data on Moxos Settlements, 1683-1882
Notes
Bibliography
Index