De las crónicas jesuíticas a las “etnografías estatales”: realidades y ficciones del orden misional en las fronteras ibéricas

This paper proposes, first, an analysis of ethnic and religious clasificactions of indigenous populations produced by colonial documents (Jesuit missionaries’ chronics and texts of Borbonic offitials) under the indigenous policy of reducciones in Paraguay and the Rio de la Plata. Second, an explorat...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:927f0aef9eb84e9c9b7a72dfc54b15032021-12-02T10:38:33ZDe las crónicas jesuíticas a las “etnografías estatales”: realidades y ficciones del orden misional en las fronteras ibéricas1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.62238https://doaj.org/article/927f0aef9eb84e9c9b7a72dfc54b15032011-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/62238https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252This paper proposes, first, an analysis of ethnic and religious clasificactions of indigenous populations produced by colonial documents (Jesuit missionaries’ chronics and texts of Borbonic offitials) under the indigenous policy of reducciones in Paraguay and the Rio de la Plata. Second, an exploration of concrete modes of interaction between “reduced indians” and “infidel indians”, reconstructing specific contexts in which they took place. It is suggested that the official discourse reflected in the chronics and later texts was oriented to produce a fiction of order (and of disorder) based on the ideal of ethnic and linguistic homogeneity, and a radical antinomy that opposed Christian and infidel space. Said “fictions” do not allow an understanding of daily interactions of the mentioned populations in all their complexity, which requires the examination of local sources in order to reconstruct indigenous agency and social networks that go beyond interethnic relations and cultural belonging.Guillermo WildeCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticle17th century18th centuryCharruaGuaraniGuaycurúiberic frontiersAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2011)
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collection DOAJ
language EN
FR
PT
topic 17th century
18th century
Charrua
Guarani
Guaycurú
iberic frontiers
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle 17th century
18th century
Charrua
Guarani
Guaycurú
iberic frontiers
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Guillermo Wilde
De las crónicas jesuíticas a las “etnografías estatales”: realidades y ficciones del orden misional en las fronteras ibéricas
description This paper proposes, first, an analysis of ethnic and religious clasificactions of indigenous populations produced by colonial documents (Jesuit missionaries’ chronics and texts of Borbonic offitials) under the indigenous policy of reducciones in Paraguay and the Rio de la Plata. Second, an exploration of concrete modes of interaction between “reduced indians” and “infidel indians”, reconstructing specific contexts in which they took place. It is suggested that the official discourse reflected in the chronics and later texts was oriented to produce a fiction of order (and of disorder) based on the ideal of ethnic and linguistic homogeneity, and a radical antinomy that opposed Christian and infidel space. Said “fictions” do not allow an understanding of daily interactions of the mentioned populations in all their complexity, which requires the examination of local sources in order to reconstruct indigenous agency and social networks that go beyond interethnic relations and cultural belonging.
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author Guillermo Wilde
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title De las crónicas jesuíticas a las “etnografías estatales”: realidades y ficciones del orden misional en las fronteras ibéricas
title_short De las crónicas jesuíticas a las “etnografías estatales”: realidades y ficciones del orden misional en las fronteras ibéricas
title_full De las crónicas jesuíticas a las “etnografías estatales”: realidades y ficciones del orden misional en las fronteras ibéricas
title_fullStr De las crónicas jesuíticas a las “etnografías estatales”: realidades y ficciones del orden misional en las fronteras ibéricas
title_full_unstemmed De las crónicas jesuíticas a las “etnografías estatales”: realidades y ficciones del orden misional en las fronteras ibéricas
title_sort de las crónicas jesuíticas a las “etnografías estatales”: realidades y ficciones del orden misional en las fronteras ibéricas
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2011
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