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Jesuit Missionary Cartography of the Upper Amazon, 1689 to 1789

Irina Saladin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

342 Seiten

2024
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-565-1 (ISBN)

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In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the upper Amazon. These missionaries belonged to the very small group of Europeans who lived in the forests of the Amazon Basin for longer periods, in close contact with local people. Their daily experiences in the mission, their high level of education, and their connection with the institutional structures of the Jesuit order made them key figures in the production of knowledge about the Amazon. Irina Saladin investigates the complex relationships between mission and knowledge in the context of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit maps. She analyzes how Jesuit missionary practices shaped the cartographic representation of the Amazon in the early modern era.

Irina Saladin is permanent lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Koblenz. In 2018 she received her PhD from the University of Tuebingen. Until 2022 she was a member of the DFG priority program “Early Modern Translation Cultures.” In her current project, she is studying eighteenth-century maps by French geographers. Pamela E. Selwyn holds a PhD in History from Princeton University and has worked as a freelance translator in Berlin for many years.

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Geography and the Society of Jesus: An Overview
Chapter 3: Maps and Mission in the Amazon
Chapter 4: Appropriation and Politics
Chapter 5: Experience and Geometry
Chapter 6: Territoriality and the Space of Jesuit Identity
Chapter 7: Ethnography and Apologetics
Chapter 8: Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography and Sources
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World
Übersetzer	Pamela Selwyn
Zusatzinfo	39 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	94-6372-565-2 / 9463725652
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-565-1 / 9789463725651
Zustand	Neuware