Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon: Native Tradition, Jesuit Enterprise, and Secular Policy in Moxos, 1660-1880

by David Block

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803212321
• ISBN13: 9780803212329
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"