“Children of the jesuits” or children of their past?

This paper argues that pre-evangelisation indigenous survival techniques noted in both contemporaneous Jesuit sources and in subsequent 20th- and 21st-century anthropological research continued to be employed in the mission to the Chiquitos. These concerned hunting, respect towards the supernatural...

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Autor principal: Ford, Kate
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2016
Materias:
Chiquitos
caza
ritos
modificación del cuerpo
arte rupestre
hunting
ritual
body-modification
rock art
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ihs/article/view/17642
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Antiguos jesuitas en Iberoamérica de Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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spelling I10-R340-article-176422019-10-18T19:26:58Z “Children of the jesuits” or children of their past? “Hijos de los jesuitas” o ¿Hijos de su propio pasado? Ford, Kate Chiquitos caza ritos modificación del cuerpo arte rupestre Chiquitos hunting ritual body-modification rock art This paper argues that pre-evangelisation indigenous survival techniques noted in both contemporaneous Jesuit sources and in subsequent 20th- and 21st-century anthropological research continued to be employed in the mission to the Chiquitos. These concerned hunting, respect towards the supernatural combined with ritual attendant on that respect, a belief in the power of potent substances, modifying the body to deflect supernatural caprice, and marking numinous sites. It concludes that the painted churches reflected both Jesuit attempts to disguise the churches’ per-ceived deficiencies and indigenous attempts to protect them from harm. Los cronistas jesuitas y, más tarde, los antropólogos de los siglos XX y XXI registraron las técnicas indígenas para asegurar la sobrevivencia en la época an-tes de la evangelización. Este artículo argumenta que las siguientes técnicas continua-ron jugando un papel en la misión: las habilidades cinegéticas, el respeto a lo sobre-natural y a los ritos que lo sostenían, la creencia en el poder de sustancias sagradas, la modificación del cuerpo para que el capricho de los espíritus se desviara, y la cos-tumbre de hacer marcas en sitios numinosos. Concluye que los templos pintados de la misión de aquel entonces reflejaron tanto el intento jesuita de disfrazar carencias per-cibidas en los edificios como el intento indígena de protegerlos contra el daño que se consideraba ser causado por espíritus malignos. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2016-12-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ihs/article/view/17642 10.31057/2314.3908.v4.n2.17642 Antiguos jesuitas en Iberoamérica; Vol. 4 Núm. 2 (2016): Julio / Diciembre de 2016; 47-79 2314-3908 10.31057/2314.3908.v4.n2 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ihs/article/view/17642/17513
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caza
ritos
modificación del cuerpo
arte rupestre
Chiquitos
hunting
ritual
body-modification
rock art
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ritos
modificación del cuerpo
arte rupestre
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ritual
body-modification
rock art
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“Children of the jesuits” or children of their past?
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ritos
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title_short “Children of the jesuits” or children of their past?
title_full “Children of the jesuits” or children of their past?
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description This paper argues that pre-evangelisation indigenous survival techniques noted in both contemporaneous Jesuit sources and in subsequent 20th- and 21st-century anthropological research continued to be employed in the mission to the Chiquitos. These concerned hunting, respect towards the supernatural combined with ritual attendant on that respect, a belief in the power of potent substances, modifying the body to deflect supernatural caprice, and marking numinous sites. It concludes that the painted churches reflected both Jesuit attempts to disguise the churches’ per-ceived deficiencies and indigenous attempts to protect them from harm.
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