Manufacturing otherness : missions and indigenous cultures in Latin America / / edited by Sergio Botta
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| Titolo: |
Manufacturing otherness : missions and indigenous cultures in Latin America / / edited by Sergio Botta
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| Pubblicazione: | Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013 |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 266.28 |
| Soggetto topico: | Missions - Latin America - History |
| Globalization - Social aspects | |
| Globalization | |
| Indigenous peoples | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | BottaSergio |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Manufacturing otherness |
| ISBN: | 1-4438-5590-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464817503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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