The Jesuits in Marañón: Pablo Maroni and his proposal for the development of the Maynas Missions

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Roberta Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/99513
• topic: Jesuítas; Missões; Maynas; Indígenas; Missões jesuíticas; grupos indígenas; Missões de Maynas; Marañón; Jesuits. Missions. Maynas. Indigenous.

The Missions of Maynas were founded by the Jesuits in 1638, in a part of the territory that we know as Amazon. The Jesuit missionaries were responsible for the pacification and reduction of most of the Marañón indians and their occupation project was the only one considered viable for that peripheral region of the Spanish colonial empire. Thus, the study of the Jesuit experience in the Missions of Maynas can provide us with some data for the understanding of colonial dynamics in other territories also considered marginal or peripheral. In this article, we present the process of founding and constituting of the Missions of Maynas, conducting a debate with the bibliography on Jesuit missions and on the specificity of writing in the Society of Jesus and analyzing part of the document Noticias Auténticas del Famoso Rio Marañón, written by Pablo Maroni between 1730 and 1738. We highlight his proposal for the development of the Maynas Missions and the viability of this project.