Table of Contents

Introduction Linda A. NewsonI Jesuit Art, architecture and material culture1. The Jesuits and Chinese style in the arts of colonial Brazil (1719–79) Gauvin Alexander Bailey 2. Two ‘ways of proceeding’: damage limitation in the mission to the Chiquitos Kate Ford3. The materiality of cultural encounters in the Treinta Pueblos de las Misiones Clarissa Sanfelice Rahmeier II Jesuit mission life4. A patriarchal society in the Río de la Plata: adultery and the double standard at mission Jesús de Tavarangue, 1782 Barbara Ganson 5. Music in the Jesuit missions of the Upper Marañón   Leonardo J. Waisman 6. Beyond linguistic description: territorialisation. Guaraní language in the missions of Paraguay (17th–19th centuries) Capucine Boidin III Jesuit approaches to evangelisation7. Administration and native perceptions of baptism at the Jesuit peripheries of Spanish America (17th–18th centuries) Oriol Ambrogio 8. “con intençión de haçerlos Christianos y con voluntad de instruirlos”. Spiritual education among American Indians in Anello Oliva’s Historia del Reino y Provincias del Perú Virginia Ghelarducci 9. Jesuits, pirates and Indians: The transatlantic resonances of a Tupi Christian doctrine Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá and Caroline Egan IV Jesuit agriculture, medicine and science10. Jesuits and mules in colonial Latin America: innovators or managers? William G. Clarence-Smith11. Jesuit recipes, Jesuit receipts: The Society of Jesus and the introduction of exotic Materia Medica into Europe Samir Boumediene12. The Jesuits and the exact sciences in Argentina Eduardo L. Ortiz

About the Author

Professor Linda Newson, FBA, OBE, is director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Reviews

A handsome volume and array of stars! The book will make an eternal mark on the field.
 -David Rock, Emeritus Professor of History (University of California, Santa Barbara)