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The Intimate Frontier
For millennia friendships have framed the most intimate and public contours of our everyday lives. In this book, Ignacio Martínez tells the multilayered story of how the ideals, logic, rhetoric, and emotions of friendship helped structure an early yet remarkably nuanced, fragile, and sporadic form of civil society (societas civilis) at the furthest edges of the Spanish Empire. Spaniards living in the isolated borderlands region of colonial Sonora were keen to develop an ideologically relevant and socially acceptable form of friendship with Indigenous people that could act as a functional substitute for civil law and governance, thereby regulating Native behavior. But as frontier society gre...
Riding Behind the Padre
Borderland immigration and drug trafficking are heated issues for most people living in the Southwest. But for Arizona rancher-author Richard Collins, who operates a 13,000 acre ranch near the Mexican border, they are a daily occurrence. Wanting to hear firsthand from those living and working in the middle of the action, Collins embarks on a horseback journey along the Arizona-Sonoran borderlands in Riding Behind the Padre: Horseback Views from Both Sides of the Border. In this true story, Collins joins up with a congenial group of Mexican riders retracing the pathways of Eusebio Francisco Kino, the pioneering Jesuit priest who explored the same borderlands three hundred years prior. The rid...
The Oxford Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World
This Handbook integrates innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the production of Iberian imperial borderlands in the Americas, from southwestern U.S. to Patagonia, and their connections to trade and migratory circuits extending to Asia and Africa. In this volume borderlands comprise political boundaries, spaces of ethnic and cultural exchange, and ecological transitions.
Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond
Embracing a rich diversity of voices, this volume seeks to explore the different facets of Anthropocene naturecultures in the desert biomes of the Global South and beyond. Essays in this collection will articulate issues of desertification, indigeneity and re-inhabitation in narratives that thread together Tibet, China, Australia, India, South Mexico, South Africa and Brazil in all their richness and complexity. Re-imaging the desert figure’s rich biodiversity, this book presents new ways to envision the human relationships to natural ecology and mindful accountability, tracing complex narrative connections and challenging hegemonic norms of its role in the co-construction of identity, aff...
Kino, a Legacy
Recounts the explorations of Father Kino in the Southwest, and includes detailed descriptions of the missions he founded.
La lengua española y los medios de comunicación
La historia de la preparación del Congreso de Zacatecas es breve e intensa. Se inició a comienzos del decenio de los noventa con la celebración del Congreso de la Lengua Española, en Sevilla, en 1992, con motivo de los actos de clausura de la Exposición Universal. Este Congreso solicitó que México fuera sede del Primer Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española. Para participar en la inauguración fueron invitados los tres premios Nobel de Literatura de habla española, Gabriel García Márquez, Camilo José Cela y Octavio Paz. Este Congreso dispuso la organización de tres mesas redondas: Las academias de la lengua y los medios de comunicación; La dimensión internacional de la lengua española y Los medios de comunicación y el futuro de la lengua española.
Missions Begin with Blood
Winner, 2022 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish North America. Missions Begin with Blood argues that martyrdom acted as a ceremony of possession that helped Jesuits understand violence, disease, and death as ways that God inevitably worked to advance Christendom. Whether petitioning superiors for support, preparing to extirpate Native “idolatries,” or protecting their conversions from critics, Jesuits found power in their persecution and victory in their victimization. This book correlates these tales of sacrifice to deep genealogies of redemptive death in Catholic discourse and explains how martyrological idioms worked to rationalize early modern colonialism. Specifically, missionaries invoked an agricultural metaphor that reconfigured suffering into seed that, when watered by sweat and blood, would one day bring a rich harvest of Indigenous Christianity.
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El 27 de septiembre de 1740 la Compañía de Jesús celebró el Segundo Centenario de su constitución. Para la ocasión, los superiores del Colegio Máximo de San Pedro y San Pablo de la Ciudad de México encargaron a un joven maestro de Gramática con amplio dominio de la lengua latina, el P. José Mariano de Iturriaga, componer un poema latino que se representaría en los patios del Colegio. Fiel a la política de propaganda de la Compañía, y aunque su obra no estuviera destinada a la publicación, para celebrar el Segundo Centenario del Instituto Ignaciano el P. Iturriaga escoge, como tema central de su poema, una de las grandes empresas llevadas a cabo por los ignacianos de la Provinc...
