Evangelización y materialidad. Relaciones e intercambios entre misioneros e indígenas en Vaupés y Guainía durante el siglo XX
Objective: To analyze the meanings and uses that missionaries and indigenous people, both Catholic and Evangelical, assigned to the exchange, possession and consumption of certain objects in their respective evangelization projects in Vaupés and Guainía at two different historical moments. The first...
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2025
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| Sumario: | Objective: To analyze the meanings and uses that missionaries and indigenous people, both Catholic and Evangelical, assigned to the exchange, possession and consumption of certain objects in their respective evangelization projects in Vaupés and Guainía at two different historical moments. The first moment covers the period from the arrival of the Montfortian missionaries to Vaupés in 1914 until their departure in 1949, while the second moment begins with the arrival of evangelical missionaries affiliated with New Tribes Mission in 1944 and ends in 2009 when indigenous testimonies about the evangelization processes were collected. Methodology: This article draws on archival work, periodical publications by the missionaries, testimonies and oral history in order to account for the representations that missionaries and indigenous people constructed about the material dimensions of the evangelization processes. Originality: The existing historiography about missions in Colombia analyzes Catholic and evangelical missions separately. On the contrary, this article compares in the same case study the projects led by Catholic and Evangelical missionaries based on their material dimensions and the exchange of objects. This focus on the materiality of the missions allows us to approach both the differences and the similarities that existed between the evangelization projects of Catholic and Evangelical missionaries in the Colombian Amazon. Conclusions: While Montfortian missionaries inserted themselves into the material exchange networks existing in Vaupés to “reduce” and capture indigenous labor, the Evangelical missionaries condemned the possession and exchange of objects and goods with colonos, associating it with the mundane. Finally, this article shows how the ways of conceiving materiality developed by Catholics and Evangelicals came into tension with indigenous ontologies, which questioned rigid conceptions and boundaries between people and things, subjects and objects. |
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