Throughout the last three hundred years, historical literature and fiction have found a frequent theme in the missions. The Jesuits spread news about this distant corner of the American colonies through the European ...

Recent research has paid special attentionto the role played by indigenous elite in the production of texts and maps. Thediscovery of a large number of manuscripts made by indigenous authorities indifferent media and for ...

Este trabajo es sobre la Misión Jesuítica de Moxos -actualBolivia-, una experiencia cultural y productiva llevada a cabo enlos siglos XVII YXVIII, que se definió a partir de una compleja combinaciónde criterios productivos ...

Santa Ana and San Ignacio Miní were two of the 30 Guarani missions found and administered by Jesuit missionaries in the old Province of Paraguay. This province was part of the Spanish settlement in colonial South America ...

De las acciones emprendidas por la Compañía de Jesús en América; la experiencia de las misiones guaraníes es destacable. Lo que los padres jesuitas llevaron a cabo en lo que se ha llamado “el Paraguay” puede aparecer tanto ...

The authors underline the importance of the print Ara poru aguiyey haba (meaning about the good use of time) for the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and the colonial Río de la Plata. Attributed to Father José Insaurralde, it ...

This article examines the long-term consequences of a historical human capital intervention. The Jesuit order founded religious missions amongst the Guarani, in modern-day Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Before their ...