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Manufacturing otherness : missions and Indigenous cultures in Latin America / edited by Sergio Botta.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missions--Latin America--History.
- Missions.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The discovery of the New World offered European civilisation the chance to generate a process of circulation of its own cultural values - the ""spiritual conquest"" - that has no comparable precedents. The missionary orders played an important role during this ""Westernisation of the world,"" not only as key players in the spread of Christian values, but also as mediators between different worlds. Indeed, missionary practices imposed the dominating culture's values and institutions on the vanquis...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 31, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-5590-1
- OCLC:
- 875097134
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