Jesuit accounts of the colonial Americas

• Titel: Jesuit accounts of the colonial Americas
• Titelzusatz: intercultural transfers, intellectual disputes, and textualities
• Mitwirkende: Bernier, Marc André [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Donato, Clorinda [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Marc André Bernier, Clorinda Donato, and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
• Ausgabe: Reprinted in paperback
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press, in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
• Jahr: 2022
• Jahr des Originals: 2014
• Umfang: vii, 464 Seiten
• Format: 22 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: CCS ; 20
• Fussnoten: Paperback reprint. Originally published 2014 ; Papers based on proceedings of two seminars held at the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies of the William Andrews Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivière ; Includes bibliographical references and index
• Schrift/Sprache: Papers in English and French
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-4977-0
• ISBN: 1-4875-4977-6
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng fre
• Sach-SW: Ethnologie - Amérique - Histoire - 17e siècle
• Sach-SW: Ethnologie - Amérique - Histoire - 18e siècle
• Sach-SW: Siècle des Lumières
• Sach-SW: Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
• Sach-SW: Enlightenment
• Sach-SW: Ethnology
• Sach-SW: French colonies
• Sach-SW: Spanish colonies
• Sach-SW: History
• Sach-SW: Sources
• Geograph. SW: Espagne - Colonies - Amérique - Histoire - 17e siècle
• Geograph. SW: Espagne - Colonies - Amérique - Histoire - 18e siècle
• Geograph. SW: America
• Zeit-SW: 1600-1799
• K10plus-PPN: 1915227607

Abstract

"In recent years scholars have turned their attention to the rich experience of the Jesuits in France’s and Spain’s American colonies. That attention has brought a flow of new editions and translations of Jesuit accounts of the Americas; it is now time for a study that examines the full range of that work in a comparative perspective. Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas offers the first comprehensive examination of such writings and the role they played in solidifying images of the Americas. The collection also provides a much-needed re-examination of the work of the Jesuits in relation to Enlightenment ideals and the modern social sciences and humanities--two systems of thought that have in the past appeared radically opposed, but which are brought together here under the rubric of modern ethnographic knowledge. Linking Jesuit texts, the rhetorical tradition, and the newly emerging anthropology of the Enlightenment, this collection traverses the vast expanses of Old and New World France and Spain in fascinating new ways."--