Contextualizing Missionary Discourse

The Benavides "Memorials" of 1630 and 1634

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2982336
AutoresDaniel T Reff (autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Volumen50
Número1
Páginas51-67
Fecha de publicación1994-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/jar.50.1.3630477
OpenAlexW2330478851
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas14

Researchers have tended to view Spanish missionary texts from the colonial period in the New World as a collection of observations whose meaning is for the most part apparent; the challenge has been to "cull" the texts for relevant and reliable data, discarding whatever is suspect or problematic ("excessively" connotative). It is suggested that missionary texts, like modern ethnographies, may be fruitfully analyzed by pursuing the cultural-historical, rhetorical, and institutional contingencies that governed missionary perceptions and representations of the New World. The utility of contextualizing missionary discourse is exemplified by an analysis of Fray Alonso de Benavides's "Memorials" of 1630 and 1634

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