La conversión de los shuar

This article charts the changing strategies of Salesian missionaries among the shuar, indigenous to the Ecuadorian Amazon. It argues that each stage in evangelization provided shuar with new forms of agency. Thus, the culmination of this process was not the production of a new population of devout C...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Rubenstein, Steve
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:Ecuador
Institución:Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Repositorio:Revista ICONOS
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec:article/99
Acceso en línea:https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/99
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:shuar
missionaries
colonialism
indigenous federations
indigenous politics
misioneros
colonialismo
federaciones indígenas
política indígena
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Sumario:This article charts the changing strategies of Salesian missionaries among the shuar, indigenous to the Ecuadorian Amazon. It argues that each stage in evangelization provided shuar with new forms of agency. Thus, the culmination of this process was not the production of a new population of devout Catholics, but rather the shuar Federation.