{"product_id":"indios-guaranies-y-jesuitas-misiones-de-la-compania-de-jesus-en-el-paraguay-1610-1767-paperback","title":"Indios Guaranies y Jesuitas Misiones de la Compañia de Jesus en el Paraguay (1610-1767) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean Paul Duviols\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is focused on the human relations between the different Guarani groups that the Jesuit Missionaries had gathered in the «converse native villages , also known as «reducciones .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is based on the testimonies of various Missionaries, with references to their letters and texts written in the peace of their European retirement after the expulsion in 1767.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these gathered documents it is possible to recognize the goodwill of the evangelists, as well as the cultural differences that often imposed an unsurmountable gap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUndoubtedly the Jesuits pusued the natives' happiness, their «salvation  from their point of view, and the means they employed stemmed directly from their social utopia: to establish «God's City  on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe controversies arisen by this unique one and a half century experience, contrast the enthusiasm and calling of the first christians with the accusations that it was indeed a veiled new form of commercial exploit and even enslavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a great number of works that analyze the «Misiones  political and economical system, so in this book we have placed the focus in a different aspect of this unique experience, more related to the historical ethnology and the issue of «otherness , giving a special attention to the iconography and its documentary value.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 11 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 19, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51796745650464,"sku":"9781934768938","price":171.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/92923464100337f0dc248c9af2cb1403.webp?v=1780766497","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/indios-guaranies-y-jesuitas-misiones-de-la-compania-de-jesus-en-el-paraguay-1610-1767-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}