Repositioning the Missionary : : Rewriting the Histories of Colonialism, Native Catholicism, and Indigeneity in Guam / / Vicente M. Diaz.

In the vein of an emergent Native Pacific brand of cultural studies, Repositioning the Missionary critically examines the cultural and political stakes of the historic and present-day movement to canonize Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627-1672), the Spanish Jesuit missionary who was martyred b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Pacific Islands Monographs Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 14 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editor's Note
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Part One. From Above: Working the Native
  • Chapter 1. The Mission Positio
  • Chapter 2. The Oral Cavity
  • Part Two. From Below: Working the Saint
  • Chapter 3. The Sweet Spot
  • Chapter 4. Traffic on the Mount
  • Part Three. From Behind: Transgressive Histories
  • Chapter 5. Disrobing the Man
  • Chapter 6. Kinship with Matå'pang
  • Epilogue: In the Shadow of Mass Destruction
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index