Jesuit Missionary Cartography of the Upper Amazon, 1689 to 1789 (Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World)

Saladin, Irina/ Selwyn, Pamela (TRN)

Routledge（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 342 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781041181699
• DDC分類 912.854409033

Full Description

In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the upper Amazon. These missionaries belonged to the very small group of Europeans who lived in the forests of the Amazon Basin for longer periods, in close contact with local people. Their daily experiences in the mission, their high level of education, and their connection with the institutional structures of the Jesuit order made them key figures in the production of knowledge about the Amazon. Irina Saladin investigates the complex relationships between mission and knowledge in the context of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit maps. She analyzes how Jesuit missionary practices shaped the cartographic representation of the Amazon in the early modern era.

Contents

Acknowledgments, List of Illustrations, Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Geography and the Society of Jesus: An Overview, Chapter 3: Maps and Mission in the Amazon, Chapter 4: Appropriation and Politics, Chapter 5: Experience and Geometry, Chapter 6: Territoriality and the Space of Jesuit Identity, Chapter 7: Ethnography and Apologetics, Chapter 8: Summary and Conclusions, Bibliography and Sources, Index