The political language of love in Guaraní in the missions of Paraguay (1750–1810)

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ID7541174
AuthorsCapucine Boidin (0000-0002-4488-9361, Full Professor in Latin-American Anthropology, IHEAL - Sorbonne Nouvelle University, CREDA UMR 7227, France, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume28
Issue2
Pages221-238
Publication date2022-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Iberian & Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1469-9524 • E-ISSN: 1470-1847
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14701847.2022.2094626
OpenAlexW4288038108
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited23

Our hypothesis is that in Paraguay’s Jesuit missions the Indian authorities, whose language was Guaraní, identified the medieval political concept of love with their own conceptions of ownership and possession of others, while the Jesuits thought they had found the exact equivalent of their conceptions of love in the Guaraní verb ayhu. We show that this was a case of “double mistaken identity,” but that it was nonetheless productive in that it entrenched, for a very long time, a certain conception of asymmetrical mutual love in Guaraní-speaking societies. To conduct our demonstration we reread recent works in Tupí-Guaraní prehistory and anthropology and analysed documents written in Guaraní by mission Indian authorities between 1750 and 1810, which as a team we paleographed, transliterated, and translated for a open-access database, available at www.langas.cnrs.fr

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Possession (linguistics · Prehistory · Sociology · Verb · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Classics · History · Indigenous Studies in Latin America · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society in Latin America

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