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Jesuit Missions of Moxos

The Jesuit Missions of Moxos are located in the Llanos de Moxos of Beni department in eastern Bolivia. Distinguished by a unique fusion of European and Amerindian cultural influences, the missions were founded as reductions or reducciones de indios by Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centuries to convert local tribes to Christianity.

History

Jesuit priests arriving from Santa Cruz de la Sierra began evangelizing native peoples of the region in the 1670s. They set up a series of missions near the Mamoré River for this purpose beginning with Loreto. The principal mission was established at Trinidad in 1686.[1]

In Moxos, books provided the Jesuits with information vital to the mission development.[2]

List of missions

Meireles (1989) lists the following Jesuit missions of Moxos along with their respective ethnic groups (tribes).[3]: 78–79  Founding dates and a few more additional missions are from Block (1994).[4]: 39 

Languages

The following indigenous languages, which make up much of the Mamoré-Guaporé linguistic area, were historically spoken in the missions.[3][5]: 11  Moxo was the primary lingua franca (Spanish: lengua general) used in the missions.[5]: 13 

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See also

References

  1. ^ Gott, Richard (1993). Land without evil: utopian journeys across the South American watershed. London; New York: Verso. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-86091-398-6.
  2. ^ Block, David, (1983). “Missionary Libraries on the Amazonian Frontier: The Jesuits in Moxos, 1680-1767.” Journal of Library History 18 (July): 292–303.
  3. ^ a b Meireles, Denise Maldi. 1989. Guardiães da fronteira: Rio Guaporé, século XVIII. Petrópolis: Vozes. ISBN 85-326-0017-4.
  4. ^ Block, David (1994). Mission culture on the upper Amazon: native tradition, Jesuit enterprise, and secular policy in Moxos, 1660-1880. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-1232-1..
  5. ^ a b c Crevels, Mily. 2002. Speakers shift and languages die: An account of language death in Amazonian Bolivia. In Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sérgio Meira & Hein van der Voort (eds.), Current Studies on South American Languages [Indigenous Languages of Latin America, 3], p. 9-30. Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS).
  6. ^ Gutiérrez, Ramón; Gutiérrez Viñuales, Rodrigo (2005). "Historia urbana de las reducciones jesuíticas sudamericanas : continuidad, rupturas y cambios (siglos XVII-XX)" (PDF): 77–78. Retrieved 25 March 2024. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)