A new look at the mission to the Chiquitos : identity and ownership in the mission and its legacy
The Jesuit Mission to the Chiquitos was founded in 1691 in what is now eastern Bolivia in order to save Indians from both Spanish and Portuguese slavers, and the devil. Belief in powerful spirit beings suffused the indigenous Oriente of the 17th and 18th centuries but it also suffused the missionary...
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University of Essex
2014
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654568 |