Jesuit Missions, Plantations, and Industries
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2019
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Jesuit Missions, Plantations, and Industries," at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The global mission project begun by Society of Jesus soon after the order’s founding in 1534 brought Jesuit priests and lay brothers into intimate encounters with diverse groups of people. Jesuits established missions, plantations, parishes, colleges, and other institutions, supporting their evangelical efforts through agricultural and industrial ventures across the Americas. Archaeologists investigate the material traces of these institutions, aided by research in the extensive archival records kept by the Society of Jesus and the colonies and states where they operated. Yet a synthesis of the archaeology of Jesuits and Jesuit properties in the Americas has not yet been attempted, in part because of projects’ vast geographic scope, language barriers, and the seemingly incongruous variety of sites established by Jesuit missionaries. This session brings together historical archaeologists who study the Jesuit presence in the Americas in order to explore associated landscapes, economic production, intercultural interaction, and evidence of religious belief.
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1650-1900
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- Documents (9)
- Farmer Priests: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Middle Atlantic Jesuit Mission (2019)
- Formulaic and Ad Hoc: Variability Among Society Of Jesus Missions in North America’s Middle Atlantic Region (2019)
- Introduction: Jesuit Archaeology in the Americas (2019)
- ‘The Jesuits Mission Proves We Were Here’: 18th Century Jesuit Missions Aiding 21st Century Tribal Recognition. (2019)
- Jesuits Missionaries Establishment in French Guiana: Archaeological Potential and Research Perspectives (2019)
- Measuring Success in the Jesuit Cause (2019)
- Slavery and the Jesuit Hacienda System of Nasca, Peru, 1619-1767 (2019)
- The Society of Jesus in the Kingdom of the Calusa (2019)
- Spatial analyses and 3-D Interpretative modelling at Loyola Habitation (1730-1768) (2019)