Disease and fear of death: The Paraguayan plague in the guarani reductions
This paper is focused on the analysis of three Jesuit sources, through which I seek to reconstruct the history of smallpox based on the fear of death and its different manifestations. Furthermore, I address the earthly and heavenly antidotes that were proposed to combat this pandemic, among which th...
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I10-R340-article-338792022-09-12T18:27:32Z Disease and fear of death: The Paraguayan plague in the guarani reductions Enfermedad y miedo a la muerte. : La peste del Paraguay en las reducciones guaraníticas García Apolonio, Miriam Epidemic death fear Jesuit missions smallpox Epidemia miedo misiones jesuitas muerte viruela This paper is focused on the analysis of three Jesuit sources, through which I seek to reconstruct the history of smallpox based on the fear of death and its different manifestations. Furthermore, I address the earthly and heavenly antidotes that were proposed to combat this pandemic, among which the heavenly ones were regarded as more valid. Adding to this premise, it is argued that behind the Jesuit discourse there is a moralizing message in which the demographic decline is justified as a product of God’s revenge upon the sinful behavior of the Guarani. El presente artículo está enfocado en el análisis de tres fuentes jesuitas, por medio de las cuales busco reconstruir la historia de la viruela a partir del miedo a la muerte y sus distintas manifestaciones. Asimismo, expongo los antídotos terrenales y celestiales que se plantean para combatir esta pandemia, entre los que se aprecia con mayor poder los celestiales. Con esto último se constata que detrás del discurso jesuítico se halla un mensaje moralizante en el que se justifica el declive demográfico como producto de la venganza de Dios por el comportamiento pecaminoso de los guaraníes. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2022-02-15 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/33879 10.31057/2314.3908.v10.33879 Antiguos jesuitas en Iberoamérica; Vol. 10 (2022): Enero / Diciembre de 2022 2314-3908 10.31057/2314.3908.v10 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ihs/article/view/33879/37061 Derechos de autor 2022 Antiguos jesuitas en Iberoamérica https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
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Disease and fear of death: The Paraguayan plague in the guarani reductions |
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This paper is focused on the analysis of three Jesuit sources, through which I seek to reconstruct the history of smallpox based on the fear of death and its different manifestations. Furthermore, I address the earthly and heavenly antidotes that were proposed to combat this pandemic, among which the heavenly ones were regarded as more valid. Adding to this premise, it is argued that behind the Jesuit discourse there is a moralizing message in which the demographic decline is justified as a product of God’s revenge upon the sinful behavior of the Guarani. |
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