INVESTIGADORES
WILDE Guillermo Luis
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
From Utopia to Reality. Indigenous Conceptions of Space in the Jesuits Missions of South America
Autor/es:
WILDE, GUILLERMO
Lugar:
New Haven
Reunión:
Conferencia; Rethinking Space in Latin American History; 2014
Institución organizadora:
Yale University
Resumen:
The
characteristics of missions? urban organization are almost unknown during the seventeenth
century. In any case, missions? urban organization aimed to gradually impose a
new conception of society, based on the principles of rationality and hierarchy.
I will try to show that in the formation of mission space the interaction
between Jesuits and Indians was not all about domination or resistance. A
mission town was neither a Foucauldian Panopticon nor a free ?land without evil?,
but rather the result of a tense process in which both Jesuits and Indians, as
non-homogeneous actors, took part. argue that mission space cannot be reduced
to the urban or architectural stylistic structure or even the physical
territory of a mission town. It is the symbolic construction that organizes daily
life and bodily practices. Moreover, mission space defines what could be
operationally described as a ?visual regime? (or a ?regime of perception?) in
which both Jesuit priests and indigenous actors actively participated.