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Encounters in the New World

Jesuit Cartography of the Americas

Av Mirela Altic

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In 1540, in the wake of the tumult brought on by the Protestant Reformation, Saint Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits. The Society’s goal was to revitalize the faith of Catholics and to evangelize to non-Catholics through charity, education, and missionary work. By the end of the century, Jesuit missionaries were sent all over the world, including to South America. In addition to performing missionary and humanitarian work, Jesuits also served as cartographers and explorers under the auspices of the Spanish, Portuguese, and French Crowns as they went into remote areas to find and evangelize to native populations. In Encounters in the New World, Mirela Altic analyzes more than one hundred fifty of their maps, most of which have never previously been published. She traces the Jesuit contribution to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World into the post-suppression period, placing it in the context of their worldwide undertakings in the fields of science and art. Altic’s analysis also shows the incorporation of indigenous knowledge into the Jesuit maps, effectively making them an expression of cross-cultural communication—even as they were tools of colonial expansion. This ambiguity, she reveals, reflects the complex relationship between missions, knowledge, and empire. Far more than just a physical survey of unknown space, Jesuit mapping of the New World was in fact the most important link to enable an exchange of ideas and cultural concepts between the Old World and the New.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-07-08
  • Mått: 178 x 254 x 39 mm
  • Vikt: 1 230 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 504
  • Förlag: The University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 9780226791050
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Mirela Altic is a specialist in map history with a keen interest in missionary cartography and the early modern encounter. She is professor of the history of cartography at the University of Zagreb (Croatia) and currently serves as vice-chair of the International Cartographic Association Commission on the History of Cartography and president of the Society for the History of Discoveries.

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"Altic . . . has given the world the first comprehensive study of Jesuit mapmaking in the Americas. Encounters in the New World tells the story of Jesuit cartography during the Age of Exploration—when Jesuit missionaries played a crucial role as conduits among cultures, becoming bridges that allowed knowledge to flow between Europeans and Indigenous Americans. Combining European mathematical techniques with the knowledge of the peoples they evangelized, Jesuits produced the first modern maps of many parts of Mexico, South America, the Great Lakes and Canada. . . . Altic brings a wealth of knowledge about cartography and explores the techniques as well as the motivations—political, religious and beyond—of its Jesuit authors. In the process, Altic draws attention to the fact that maps—particularly in their seventeenth-century form—were simultaneously art and artifact. . . . Encounters in the New World shows how inseparable the Jesuit experience has been from the story and fate of the Americas."

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