RHETOR 151 Chapter 10: R151 Reading 03.16.2017 (2) - Disciplining the Indians
13 Mar 2017
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Discipling the indians: franciscan ideology and missionary violence in 16th. Beidelman: noted that social anthropologists had neglected the study of colonial groups and asked that missionaries and mission stations be investigated. Need to recognize europeans as subjects for wonder and analysis . This article: particular group of franciscan missionary friars who worked among the maya indians of the yucatan peninsula in the middle decades of the sixteenth century. 2 concerns (1) trace how the new challenges and experiences in the mexican missionary situation shifted emphases within enduring themes of. Franciscan ideology (2) identify what it was in the context of yucatan that brought those new emphases to strong expression. Through display of personal unworthiness (confession of one"s sin) the european intimated the actual legitimacy of his new authority. Minister charged them to convert by word and example. Force was to be no part of the franciscan armoury.
