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FROM TRADITIONAL PRACTICES TO REDUCTION PRACTICES: RITUALS OF HEALING, GRIEF AND BURIAL AT THE JESUIT-GUARANI REDUCTIONS (JESUIT PROVINCE OF PARAGUAY, 17TH CENTURY)
Published 2011-10-01“…The analysis of the records made by the missionaries, especially the Cartas Ânuas of the Jesuitical Province of Paraguay regarding the period from 1609 to 1675, revealed that, on the one hand, the Guarani kept traditional practices of their religious sensibility – as is evinced in the resignification of the "copious crying" and the funereal laments –, and, on the other hand, that the missionaries, besides incorporating the native pharmacopoeia and many of the indian healing practices, skillfully manipulated the cures and the "bien morir", a strategy that was fundamental to the success of the civilization-conversion project of the Companhia de Jesus alongside the Guarani.…”
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De mancebas auxiliares do demônio a devotas congregantes: mulheres e condutas em transformação (reduções jesuítico-guaranis, séc. XVII) From devil's servants to devoted congregants...
Published 2006-12-01“…<br>This article proposes the analysis of the representations of the Guarani Indian women, considering the chronicles by missionaries who, informed by their cultural and social condition and by the colonization and converting projects, defined particular stereotypes and valorized an evolutionary standard of conduct of the Indian women. …”
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En orden a sus virtudes y facultades medicinales: um estudo sobre o Paraguay Natural Ilustrado de José Sánchez Labrador S. J.
Published 2016-12-01“…Beyond of the therapeutic virtues of waters, grounds, plants, bezoar stones and insects described in this work, our interest is, too, demonstrate that in the Paraguay Natural Ilustrado the missionary Sánchez Labrador has reunited information derived from both his own observations and the ones that he obtained with the indigenous; as information found in works produced by other Jesuits or lay scientists, with whom he established an interesting dialog. …”
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