Villages disputes in the borderlands of colonial Paraguay: the paradigm of conflict among Jesuit reductions

This article contextualizes the province of Paraguay between the 17th and 18th centuries, taking as its main consideration historical narratives that, for some reason, indicate situations of conflict among villages. In practice, conflicts between two or more Jesuit reductions were recorded in order...

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Autor principal: Maurer, Rodrigo
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Lenguaje:Portugués
Publicado: Sección Etnohistoria, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas. FFyL, UBA 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/MA/article/view/14074
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Sumario:This article contextualizes the province of Paraguay between the 17th and 18th centuries, taking as its main consideration historical narratives that, for some reason, indicate situations of conflict among villages. In practice, conflicts between two or more Jesuit reductions were recorded in order to claim property over poorly defined territories or important subsistence and commercial products of the time, such as heads of cattle. Ánalyzed in this way, and however unusual the outcomes may have been, the episodes of litigationallow us to roughly measure certain regional characteristics, oppositions and defenses of local identities. In short, they reveal an incessant effort on the part of the Society of Jesus to interfere in the ancestral memory of the original peoples in order to “adjust” them according to the measures that the missionaries considered recognizable or necessary.