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Author Block, David, 1945-2021.

Title Mission culture on the upper Amazon : native tradition, Jesuit enterprise & secular policy in Moxos, 1660-1880 / David Block
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents The setting -- The Jesuit century -- The missions -- Mission Indians: gentiles and neophytes -- The missionaries: fathers and brothers -- Mission culture under Spanish rule -- Moxos to Beni: the dissolution of mission culture
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
Analysis Catholicism Missions
Bolivia
Notes Based on the author's (Ph. D.) thesis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index
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Subject Jesuits -- Missions -- Bolivia -- Moxos
Jesuits
Mojo Indians -- Missions
Indians of South America -- Missions -- Bolivia -- Moxos
RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions.
Indians of South America -- Missions
Missions
Mojo Indians -- Missions
Mission
Missie.
Jezuïeten.
Mojo (Indiens) -- Missions -- Histoire.
Indiens d'Amérique -- Bolivie -- Missions.
Jésuites -- Missions -- Bolivie -- Moxos (Bolivie) -- Histoire.
Geschichte 1660-1880.
Moxos (Bolivia) -- History
Beni (Bolivia) -- History
Bolivia -- Beni
Bolivia -- Moxos
Llanos de Mojos
Moxos.
Beni (Bolivie) -- Histoire.
Moxos (Bolivie) -- Histoire.
Indianer.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585287821
9780585287829