Escrituras de la modernidad. Los jesuitas entre cultura retórica y cultura científica (original) (raw)

Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America

2020

(early 18th century). 1.11 Stone temple lion, forecourt of the Franciscan church of Santo António (popularly known as São Francisco), João Pessoa (c.1734 or 1779). 2.1 A nocturnal procession during Holy Week arriving at the door of the restored church of La Inmaculada, Concepción. 2.2 Part of a rhomboidal grid marked in reddish pigment on a rock face in the Serranía de Santiago. 2.3 Rock drawing given an ancient interpretation by a 20th-century Chiquitano. 2.4 Schematic drawings of incised decoration on three bowls disinterred at Campo Grande (top), El Abasto (middle) and Puerto Rico (bottom). 2.5 European engraving of Xaraye people in the 16th century. 2.6 Drawing of a painted or tattooed Caduveo (Kadiwéu) woman by Guido Boggiani in 1892 (right); and a drawing on paper CULTURAL WORLDS OF THE JESUITS vi made by a Caduveo (Kadiwéu) woman in the 1930s for Claude Lévi-Strauss (left). 2.7 Wall painting behind a crucifix in the sacristy, San Rafael. 2.8 View of San Miguel showing the lozenge-shaped mouldings on the doors. 3.1 and 3.2. Woman making a clay pot according to the traditional technique called acordelado 3.3 First sequence of clay pot making, before decoration, nearly finished. 4.1 Il Paraguai e Paesi Adiacenti. Venezia 1785. Courtesy of Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress. 4.2 Photograph of the first page of the Guarani letter, Mission Jesús de Tavarangue (AGN IX 36-9-6 Misiones, 1782). 5.1 Cours du fleuve Maragnon, autrement dit des Amazones par le P. Samuel Fritz, Missionnaire de la Compagnie de Jésus. Author Samuel Fritz (1656-1725). 5.2 Detail from Cours du fleuve Maragnon, autrement dit des Amazones par le P. Samuel Fritz, Missionnaire de la Compagnie de Jésus. Author Samuel Fritz (1656-1725). 6.1 Portuguese and Spanish Jesuit missions of South America, 16th-18th centuries. In red: Portuguese missions; red circles where missions use two variants of the lingua geral. In blue: Spanish missions; blue circles where missions use Guaraní as a general language. 6.2 Jesuit missions of South America, 16th-18th centuries. Spanish frontier missions in blue; penetration of Portuguese missions in red.

Introduction to Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits

Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America, 2021

The Jesuits’ colonial legacy in Latin America is well-known. They pioneered an interest in indigenous languages and cultures, compiling dictionaries and writing some of the earliest ethnographies of the region. They also explored the region’s natural history and made significant contributions to the development of science and medicine. On their estates and in the missions they introduced new plants, livestock, and agricultural techniques, such as irrigation. In addition, they left a lasting legacy on the region’s architecture, art and music. The volume demonstrates the diversity of Jesuit contributions to Latin American culture. This volume is unique in considering not only the range of Jesuit activities but also the diversity of perspectives from which they may be approached. It includes papers from scholars of history, linguistics, religion, art, architecture, music, medicine and science.

Review of Linda A. Newson, ed., Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America

Hispanic American Historical Review , 2020

larger claims that dissent, political rivalry, moral compromise, and self-seeking were the prevailing themes of the early history of the church in Michoacán. A short review can't do justice to the rich portraits of the sadists, weirdos, losers, and cranks that Nesvig has unearthed in the archives and resurrected in chapters 3 through 6. What is most notable about these chapters is that Nesvig keeps examining these people long after most others would have passed a harsh judgment on them, bringing their complexities and unexpectedly sympathetic traits, the tragedies and ironies of their life stories, into view. In this sense the book brings to mind essays from Bernard Bailyn's Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence (1990), which found affecting human drama in the lives of obscure men. Some may object to Nesvig's lively translation of the blasphemies that he found in the archives. But translating an insult as "thieving, knavish traitor, highway bandit, punkass bitch" serves the same purpose as Nesvig's meticulous research, lucid prose, and careful contextualization: it brings the subjects closer to us and brings them alive while respecting the profound alienness of their cultures and times (p. 92). Scholars of colonial Mexico, the Spanish empire, and comparative borderlands should read Promiscuous Power and assign it to students at all levels.

Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas, book review by Pablo Abascal.pdf

The anthology, which includes texts written in many languages by authors from many different countries and disciplines (historians, art historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars), results in a diverse compilation of Jesuit studies . Although most articles are about Jesuits in the eighteenth century, their relationship with the Enlightenment, and their expulsion from the American territories, it also contains some texts that cover the two previous centuries . The editors envisioned this book as part of a complex and international network where Jesuit knowledge and ideas circulated in different spaces, questioning its production and reception in both sides of the Atlantic, rethinking the relationship between the religious order's areas with anthropological and ethnographic knowledge .