Demographic change and ethnic survival among the sedentary populations on the Jesuit mission frontiers of Spanish South America, 1609-1803 : : the formation and persistence of mission communities in a comparative context / / Robert H. Jackson.

• Superior document: European Expansion and Indigenous Response, Volume 16
• VerfasserIn: Jackson, Robert H.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: European expansion and indigenous response ; Volume 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Beginning in 1609, Jesuit missionaries established missions (reductions) among sedentary and non-sedentary native populations in the larger region defined as the Province of Paraguay (Rio de la Plata region, eastern Bolivia). One consequence of resettlement on the missions was exposure to highly con...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• Managing the Missions and Social-Cultural Change
• Smallpox Epidemics and Smallpox Treatment
• Demographic Patterns on the Paraguay and Chiquitos Mission Frontiers
• Mission Demographic Patterns among Sedentary and Non-Sedentary Natives on the Frontiers of Spanish America: A Comparative Discussion
• Post-Jesuit Expulsion Population Trends
• Conclusions
• Appendix 1: Population of the Paraguay Missions, in Selected Years
• Appendix 2: Females as a Percentage of the Total Population of the Paraguay Missions
• Appendix 3: Marriages Recorded in the Paraguay Missions, in Selected Years
• Appendix 4: Vital Rates of the Paraguay Missions
• Appendix 5: Population of the Chiquitos Missions
• Appendix 6: Females as a Percentage of the Total Population of the Chiquitos Missions
• Appendix 7: Marriages Recorded in the Chiquitos Missions in Selected Years
• Appendix 8: Vital Rates of the Chiquitos Missions
• Appendix 9: Castillian Weights and Measures Mentioned in the Text
• Appendix 10: A Note on Colonial Spanish American Silver Coins
• Appendix 11: Area Measurements of Agricultural Land in Spanish America
• Selected Bibliography
• Index.