Missions, Missionaries, and Native Americans: Long-Term Processes and Daily Practices - Softcover

Wade, Mariah F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813038014 ISBN 13: 9780813038018

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2011

Synopsis

“Provides an astute, in-depth historical comparison and analysis of changing mission strategies and the practical operation of Spanish Jesuit and Franciscan missions in California, Texas, Florida, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Northeast Mexico from the sixteenth until the late eighteenth century. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice

“An integrative approach, utilizing historical sources to tease out the question of what Native Americans actually did in a Spanish mission, as well as the more difficult questions of why and to what effect.”—Missiology “A skillful and insightful synthesis of the experience of native peoples living in missions in northern Mexico and Florida that goes beyond a narrative approach. Wade explains why native peoples accepted or rejected missionaries, and how native peoples lived.”—Robert H. Jackson, author of Missions and Frontiers of Spanish America “A volume that will be a valuable addition to the library of all students of the Spanish colonial world. It will serve as a standard reference on the missionary efforts of Spanish colonial North America for decades to come.”—Russell K. Skowronek, Santa Clara University With cogent analysis of archaeological records, Maria Wade addresses the long-term processes of development of the mission as an institution. Maria F. Wade, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of The Native Americans of the Texas Edwards Plateau, 1582–1799.

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Book Description

"A skillful and insightful synthesis of the experience of native peoples living in missions in northern Mexico and Florida that goes beyond a narrative approach. Wade explains why native peoples accepted or rejected missionaries, and how native peoples lived."--Robert H. Jackson, author of Missions and Frontiers of Spanish America

"A volume that will be a valuable addition to the library of all students of the Spanish colonial world. It will serve as a standard reference on the missionary efforts of Spanish colonial North America for decades to come."--Russell K. Skowronek, Santa Clara University

From the 1600s through the 1800s, Spanish missionaries came to America to convert Native Americans. Maria Wade provides in-depth information on their efforts, their varying missionary ambitions, and native peoples' responses to evangelization and conversion efforts.

No other study offers such a broad, comparative approach. By examining the missionary efforts of the Franciscans and Jesuits in Florida, Texas, California, and northern Mexico, Wade brings into sharp contrast the different experiences and outcomes as these two Catholic orders sought to gain a foothold in North America.

Missions, Missionaries, and Native Americans also provides an ethnohistorical and archaeological perspective on the structure and daily activities of early mission life. Of particular interest is the discussion of the similarity between Catholic religious practices and Native American shamanistic practices.

 

About the Author

Maria F. Wade, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of The Native Americans of the Texas Edwards Plateau, 1582–1799.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0813038014
• ISBN 13: 9780813038018
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 328