The Guaranitic War in a Context of Contact Culture: an interpretation of the character of interactions between guarani missionaries and iberian societies

• Autor(a) principal: Goya Fontella, Leandro
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/99461
• topic: Guerra Guaranítica. Missões Jesuítico-Guaranis. Middle Ground. Cultura de Contato. Interações Coloniais.; Interações Coloniais; Guaranitic War. Jesuit-Guarani Missions. Middle ground. Contact Culture. Colonial Interactions.

In this text, the Guaranitic War is examined in the light of the middle ground conceptual tool formulated by Richard White. We seek to investigate some of the elementary factors for the existence of a common intelligibility zone between the different interacting societies, highlighting the fragile balance of forces between them. This theoretical exercise was carried out based on the analysis of contemporary reports and the interlocution with studies based on solid empirical bases, from which it was possible to explore the sources transcribed and/or the incidents narrated and interpreted by the authors. By way of conclusion it can be understood that individually the Iberian societies in the Plata could not subjugate the missionary Guarani involved in the conflict; whereas the temporary war alliance of the Iberians has promoted an ephemeral rupture of the balance of power in the region, and; the manner in which the members of each Iberian army behaved with respect to the codes of contact culture conditioned the relations between the Spanish and Portuguese colonial fronts with the Guarani during the remainder of the eighteenth century.