Missionizing on the Edge

Francismar Alex Lopes de Carvalho is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany. He is also a professor of history at Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil. He earned his PhD from the University of São Paulo.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Images of Natives1 “Friendly” and “Barbaric” Indians2 Settlers, Missionaries, and Imagined Indians3 Encomenderos and Images of Natives2 Images of the Devil1 The Devil in Amazonia2 The Devil’s Physical Presence3 Shamans and the Devil3 Missionary Entradas and Ethnic Processes1 Missionary Entradas and Punitive Expeditions2 Modus Operandi3 Parcialidades and Ethnicities4 Territorial Disputes and the Financing of the Missionary Enterprise1 On the Frontiers of the Real Patronato2 Origins of the Resources3 Procurators, Martyrs, and Territorial Possession4 The Missionaries’ Annual Synod5 The Trade in Mission Products6 The Missionary Shortage5 Between Captivity and Conversion: Spanish Jesuits, Portuguese Carmelites, and Indigenous Peoples1 Carmelites2 War Troops and Ransoming Troops3 Ransoming Troops and the Carmelites4 The Rhetoric of Conquest and Indigenous Agency6 Mediators of the Sacred: Missionaries’ Indigenous Auxiliaries1 Cabildantes and fiscales de doctrina2 Competitive Sociability3 Fault and Correction4 Reversibility and Reframing7 “A Veritable Jungle of Languages”: Jesuits, Language Policy, and Cultural Translation1 Challenges Involved in Learning2 The Interpreters3 Aspects of Language Policy4 Vocabularies and Catechisms5 The Translation of Christian Doctrine8 Conversions1 Jesuits and Shamans2 Catechesis and Mass in the Daily Life of Missions3 Forms of Appropriating Catholic Festivals and Devotions4 Ambiguities Surrounding the Sacraments5 Civil Customs and Religious RitesConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex