Heritage and Its Missions

Cristóbal Gnecco (Edited By) Cristóbal Gnecco is professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad del Cauca and chair of its Anthropology Program, where he works on the political economy of archaeology, geopolitics of knowledge, discourses on alterity, and ethnographies of heritage.Adriana Schmidt Dias (Edited By) Adriana Schmidt Dias holds an MA in History from the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul and a PhD in Archeology from the University of São Paulo. She is professor in the Department and in the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and professor in the Graduate Program in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Archeology at the Federal University of Pelotas. She has carried out research and published on Brazilian precolonial archaeology; theory and method in archaeology; Indigenous history; and cultural heritage.

• Introduction 1Cristóbal Gnecco and Adriana Schmidt DiasPart I: Alternative Readings of Heritage: Subjects, Alterization, and the Different Meanings of the PastCrisis of the "Heritage Order": Disputed Representations of the Jesuit Missions' Past 23Guillermo WildeSemiotic Policies in Conflict at São Miguel Arcanjo Mission (Brazil) 48Adriana Schmidt DiasTeaching Missions, Training Citizens: The California Missions as Curriculum 65Elizabeth Kryder-ReidNative Heritage and the California Missions: A Collaborative Approach at Mission Santa Clara 88Lee M. Panich and Charlene NijmehHeritage at Stake: The Contemporary Guarani and the Missions 112Cristóbal GneccoPart II : Local Appropriations of the Historical Meanings of the MissionsUses and Meanings of the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay 131Maximiliano von ThüngenClaiming the Missions as Indigenous Spaces 153Lisbeth HaasReclaiming Cha'alayash through Applied Decolonization:Intervening and Indigenizing the Narrative in, around, and about California'sSites of Conscience 169Deana DarttViolence, Destruction, and Patrimonialization of the Missionary Past:The Tohono O'odham Memory, the Silenced Voice of the Magical Town Magdalena de Kino 192Edith LlamasConclusion: The Missions as Heritage 221Cristóbal GneccoEditors' Acknowledgments 233List of Contributors 235Index 239