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The Early Modern Production of Missionary Books on Indigenous Languages in New Spain and Peru

The Early Modern Production of Missionary Books on Indigenous Languages in New Spain and Peru - Languages and Culture in History

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Publisher's Synopsis

How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translations deepen our understanding of their contents? The handwritten and printed missionary books produced in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru were key instruments designed to help study Indigenous languages in order to efficiently teach religious doctrine to local communities unfamiliar with European culture and religion. This volume considers these missionary books as physical and social objects and illuminates how a variety of factors determines their physical appearance, structure, and form, which in turn shape and guide the interpretation of their contents: people involved in its making; geographical and social circumstances and conditions of production; technologies, materials, and tools; genre and function(s) of the books; and intended readership, modes of distribution, and readerly responses.

Book information

ISBN: 9789463724173
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 282.72
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 400
Weight: -1g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm