Arrived in the New World in 1541 along with the famous Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, the Spanish priest Martín González lived for years with the indigenous people of Paraguay, learning their language and developing the first strategies of evangelization; he confronted the local ci…
"In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guaraní people of present-day Paraguay were based on reciprocal gift-giving. But the Spanish and Portuguese newcomers who arrived in the sixteenth century seemed intereste…
Introduction : directions -- Coming to the encounter -- The new world of gain -- Limits of law, love, and conscience -- Beyond predation -- The Guaraní mission world -- Good economy of the state -- From community to liberty -- The only example in the history of the universe -- C…
"In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guaraní people of present-day Paraguay were based on reciprocal gift-giving. But the Spanish and Portuguese newcomers who arrived in the sixteenth century seemed intereste…
"In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guaraní people of present-day Paraguay were based on reciprocal gift-giving. But the Spanish and Portuguese newcomers who arrived in the sixteenth century seemed intereste…
"In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guaraní people of present-day Paraguay were based on reciprocal gift-giving. But the Spanish and Portuguese newcomers who arrived in the sixteenth century seemed intereste…
