Luís Fróis’s História de Japam: aims and methods by Takamura, JA

“…</p> <p>In the História anything that is controversial or could depict the missionaries in a bad light is avoided or minimised; the Jesuits’ errors are usually blamed on their enemies. …”

Maltese antiquarians of early-modern age and the cave church of Mellieha by Chiara Cecalupo

“…This is the occasion to report some accounts of Maltese and European scholars regarding one of the most important Medieval sites of Malta (the Church of Our Lady of Mellieha) and to underline how scholars and missionaries of the 17th century related with the historical and archaeological affected by close contacts with Islam. …”
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“O Araguaia que corre na minha aldeia": a relação identitária dos moradores de Conceição do Araguaia /PA com o rio by Ester Brito Parente, Anelino Francisco da Silva

“…Indigenous groups, backwoodsmen, extractivists, missionaries, explorers, among other subjects, were part of the social-cultural transformations in the town and on the Araguaia River. …”
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THE BREAD OF INDIA: the corn in the reports of Diego Durán and José de Acosta by Luis Guilherme Assis Kalil, Renato Denadai da Silva

“…From the accounts of two religious of Hispanic America, the Dominican Diego Durán and the Jesuit José de Acosta, the article aim to analyze how these two authors sought to understand the indigenous universe that presented itself to the missionary work having as a focus the relation established by them between the eating (in which the corn has a fundamental role) and the indigenous beliefs. …”
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A diversidade da vida nos territórios amazônicos: onde a figura mítica da cobra se multiplica em diferentes sentidos de mundo(s) by Pâmela Damilano dos Santos

“…The paperhighlightsthe contrast between missionary and colonizers' perspectives with the indigenous and Afro-Brazilian peoples. …”
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Os sentidos de uma vida: a construção de si e do grupo na materialidade de uma autobiografia by Loyde Anne Carreiro Silva Veras, Evelyn de Almeida Orlando

“…Eva Mills lived and worked in Brazil as a Protestant missionary from 1928 to 1959 and she retired to the United States. …”
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A DEFESA DO PATRIMÔNIO CULTURAL HISTÓRICO EM SANTO ÂNGELO-RS ATRAVÉS DA ORGANIZAÇÃO DA COMUNIDADE LOCAL NA INTERNET by Marina Gowert dos Reis, Juliane Conceição Primon Serres, João Fernando Igansi Nunes

“…Angelo - RS, city with missionary past, which, through the Internet, meets to discuss the defense of its Historical Center in the face of real estate speculation, and seeks dialogue with municipal and state governmental institutions to ensure the protection of this cultural heritage. …”
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