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Irina Saladin

Karten und Mission

Die jesuitische Konstruktion des Amazonasraums im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert
[Maps and Missions. The Jesuit Depiction of the Amazon Region in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.]
2020. XX, 390 pages.
Historische Wissensforschung (HWF) 12
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-158861-7
Published in German.
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Summary
Maps of the Amazon region stemmed for a long time principally from the Jesuit missionaries who explored and described it. But just how great was their influence on this drawn knowledge? Irina Saladin seeks answers and shows that early modern maps of the area were in very many respects influenced by the missionary, trans-cultural and political practices of their producers.

Historische Wissensforschung (HWF)