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Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree
Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949
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Erick D. Langer
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
About this book
Analyzes one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican-era Latin America, the Franciscan missions among the Chiriguano Indians in Bolivia, as a model for the study of a postcolonial missions system, focusing on the struggle of the Chrig
Author / Editor information
Erick D. Langer is Professor of History and core faculty at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of Economic Change and Rural Resistance in Southern Bolivia, 1880-1930; editor of Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America; and co-editor of The New Latin American Mission History.
Reviews
“Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree is a superb book. Erick D. Langer departs from previous historical work with his portrayals of the mission life cycle (which no future historian writing on the topic will be able to ignore); missions in the republican period; the Bolivian Chaco; the frontier as a permeable, advancing and contracting concept, rather than a bright line; and the ethnohistory of the Chirguano, from autonomy to dependence.”—David Block, author of Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon: Native Tradition, Jesuit Enterprise, and Secular Policy in Moxos, 1660-1880
“Culminating over a decade of research, Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree brings the republican-era Franciscan missions of the Chiriguanía of southeastern Bolivia into the center of frontier history. Erick D. Langer integrates the empirical data from numerous archives into cultural frameworks in ways that create a powerful narrative of ethnogenesis in the ‘fields of interaction’ that emerged from the institutional mission.”—Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
August 19, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9780822390916
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
392
Other:
12 illustraions, 18 tables, 1 map
eBook ISBN:
9780822390916
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
