FROM TRADITIONAL PRACTICES TO REDUCTION PRACTICES: RITUALS OF HEALING, GRIEF AND BURIAL AT THE JESUIT-GUARANI REDUCTIONS (JESUIT PROVINCE OF PARAGUAY, 17TH CENTURY)

This article intends to evince and analyze the impact of the Christian conceptions of sickness and death on the Guarani indian sensibility and its translation in terms of representations and social practices in the Jesuitical reductions. The analysis of the records made by the missionaries, especial...

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Main Author: Eliane Cristina Deckmann Fleck
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2011-10-01
Series:Espaço Ameríndio
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Online Access:http://seer.ufrgs.br/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/20414