Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World
Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World
ISBN: 978-94-6372-565-1
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the upper Amazon. These missionaries belonged to the very small group of Europeans who lived in the forests of the Amazon Basin for longer periods, in close contact with local people. Their daily experiences in the mission, their high level of education, and their connection with the institutional structures of the Jesuit order made them key figures in the production of knowledge about the Amazon. Irina Saladin investigates the complex relationships between mission and knowledge in the context of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit maps. She analyzes how Jesuit missionary practices shaped the cartographic representation of the Amazon in the early modern era.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Geography and the Society of Jesus: An Overview
Chapter 3: Maps and Mission in the Amazon
Chapter 4: Appropriation and Politics
Chapter 5: Experience and Geometry
Chapter 6: Territoriality and the Space of Jesuit Identity
Chapter 7: Ethnography and Apologetics
Chapter 8: Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography and Sources
Index
