La vida del jesuita Román Arto a través de sus escritos sobre su experiencia misional entre mataguayos y tobas

In the second half of the 18th century, the Jesuits took an active part in the evangelization of the Chaco, protecting reductions created for the defense of the scarce territory conquered by the Spanish. The indigenous resistance at times was implacable, but at the cost of the sacrifice of thousands of lives. Thepresent work does not pretend to debate on the Jesuit writing as a historiographic problem, nor to delve into the biographical method and still less in the ethnographic character of the secondary protagonists since they are arduously treated subjects. We simply aspire to go through the life of a little-known missionary, through his memoirs written from exile, where he recounts the events he lived through between Mataguayos and Tobas. Moments with various vicissitudes that, despite an apologetic account, do not fail to make visible a constant disappointment at reforming a different culture, in an exhausting dedication for trying to recognize the other as an individual, in some way considered as opposed. Attempts that seem to be consoled and calm in the ostracism of exile

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