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Irina Saladin - Jesuit Missionary Cartography of the Upper Amazon, 1689 to 1789, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Jesuit Missionary Cartography of the Upper Amazon, 1689 to 1789

Av Irina Saladin

Del i serien Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World

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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.
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Irina Saladin is permanent lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Koblenz. In 2018 she received her PhD from the University of Tuebingen. Until 2022 she was a member of the DFG priority program “Early Modern Translation Cultures.” In her current project, she is studying eighteenth-century maps by French geographers. Pamela E. Selwyn holds a PhD in History from Princeton University and has worked as a freelance translator in Berlin for many years.

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"Saladin artfully combines an array of primary documents with the most recent scholarship to offer a comprehensive analysis of Jesuit cartography of early modern Amazonia. Those interested in the history of religion will find this book an important vehicle for appreciating how the production of spatial knowledge was one of the pillars of Catholic missionary work in the New World." - Roberto Chauca, The Catholic Historical Review

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