Reducciones jesuíticas del Paraguay: territorio y urbanismo
- Format:
- Dissertation
- Year:
- 2017
- University:
- Universidad de Granada
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- Thesis type:
- Doctoral Dissertation
- Place published:
- Granada
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- Abstract:
The evangelization of the Guarani by the fathers of the Society of Jesus throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1609-1767 / 1768) has been the subject of study for many researchers, arousing great interest also in tourists and citizens that currently inhabit the territories where the reductions were established. Evidence of the attraction generated are the International Days on Jesuit Missions that, from 1984 to the present, have been held every two years, constituting a very high percentage of the contributions that are presented in them referring to the peoples of Guarani.
Valuing said handicap and after a complete bibliographical revision, we decided to direct our thesis to four main objectives. In the first place, we chose to jointly address the urbanism of the so-called thirty Jesuit-Guarani peoples, dwelling on the architectural typologies that made up their urban nuclei with the will to sustain such studies on a rigorous archival work. Secondly, it seemed basic to us to claim what was happening outside the constructed limits of each reduction, that is, to value the peripheral territories to the villages, where the plantations were located, as well as the dairy farms and other agricultural establishments of the environment, vital for the economic sustenance of the system. In the third place, we decided to put the magnifying glass on a triad of reductions - Santa María la Mayor, Jesús and Santos Cosme and Damián - mired in reform processes in the years prior to the expulsion (1767/1768). Finally, we would explore the birth of three reductions just referred to in the previous investigations and often considered outside the system - San Joaquin, San Estanislao and Our Lady of Bethlehem - which emerged as an intermediate scale between the missions of Guarani and those of small Indians.
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- Number of Pages:
- 537
- Comment:
- Rafael Jesús López Guzmán (dir. tes.)