Early history of the Southwest through the eyes of German-speaking Jesuit missionaries : a transcultural experience in the eighteenth century PDF
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Early History of the Southwest through the Eyes of German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries Early History of the Southwest through the Eyes of German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries A Transcultural Experience in the Eighteenth Century Albrecht Classen LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•Toronto•Plymouth,UK PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AwhollyownedsubsidiaryofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2013byLexingtonBooks Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Classen,Albrecht. EarlyhistoryoftheSouthwestthroughtheeyesofGerman-speakingJesuitmissionaries:atranscul- turalexperienceintheeighteenthcentury/AlbrechtClassen. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-7391-7784-6(cloth:alkalinepaper)—ISBN978-0-7391-7785-3(electronic) 1.Southwest,New—History—To1848—Sources.2.Southwest,New—Foreignpublicopinion,Ger- man—History—18thcentury—Sources.3.Southwest,New—Foreignpublicopinion,Swiss—Histo- ry—18thcentury—Sources.4.Jesuits—Southwest,New—History—18thcentury—Sources.5.Jes- uits—Europe,German-speaking—History—18thcentury—Sources.6.Missionaries—Southwest, New—History—18thcentury—Sources.7.IndiansofNorthAmerica—Southwest,New—History— 18thcentury—Sources.8.Southwest,New—Ethnicrelations—History—18thcentury—Sources.9. Jesuits—Southwest,New—Biography.10.Missionaries—Southwest,New—Biography.I.Title. F799.C552013 979'.01—dc23 2012038367 ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Contents ListofIllustrations vii Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi 1 German-SpeakingJesuitMissionariesintheAmerican Southwest:GlobalPerspectivesofaLocalPhenomenoninthe EighteenthCentury—AnIntroduction 1 2 MajorGermanJesuitWritersandTheirBiographies:AGlobal HistoryfromIndividualPerspectives 21 3 FatherEusebioKino—ThePioneer:Discovery,Encounters,and theEstablishmentoftheKinoMissionaryNetwork 53 4 JosephStoecklein’sWelt-Bott:AJesuit’sCollectionofGlobal MissionaryReportsforaGermanAudience 73 5 AnEncyclopedicApproachtotheEarlyHistoryofSonora:The PimeríaAltaasSeenbyIgnazPfefferkorn,aGermanScientist MissionaryandAnthropologistintheNewWorld 85 6 JosephOch’sTravelReports:AnAutobiographicalPerspective 131 7 ThePersonalPerspective:LettersbytheSwissJesuitPhilipp Segesser,aMissionary’sCorrespondencewithHisFamily 165 Conclusion 199 Bibliography 203 Index 213 v List of Illustrations Figure1.1:MemorialplaqueofHeinrichRuheninHarsum-Borsum Figure1.2:TheHeinrichRuhenSquareinBorsum Figure3.1:SculptureofFatherEusebioKinoonhorseback Figure3.2:HerbertBolton’s(1918)mapofPimeríaAlta Figure3.3:FacadeofSanXavierdelBac Figure3.4:Close-upofthefacadeofSanXavierdelBac Figure3.5:AltarpieceofSanXavierdelBac Figure3.6:WestwingofthetranseptinSanXavier Figure3.7:Agaveplant Figure7.1:SanXavier,dome,viewfromthenorth vii
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