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Parution : Zanna van Loon, "The Early Modern Production of Missionary Books on Indigenous Languages in New Spain and Peru", Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2024

Year: 2024

Type: other

Abstract: How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translations deepen our understanding of their contents? The handwritten and printed missionary books produced in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru were key instruments designed to help study Indigenous languages in order to efficiently teach religious doctrine to local communities unfamiliar with European culture and religion. This volume c...

Source: Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)

DOI: 10.58079/13q4w

Author: Fiammetta Campagnoli

Language: English

Topic: Latin American history and culture

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6899262610

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