The Missions of Northern Sonora

The Missions of Northern Sonora
Title The Missions of Northern Sonora PDF eBook
Author Buford L. Pickens
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 237
Release 2022-04-05
Genre History
ISBN 081654770X

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The Spanish missions founded by Padre Eusebio Kino in Sonora, Mexico, during the 1690s and early 1700s are historical as well as architectural marvels. Once self-supporting villages with central churches, the missions stand today as monuments to perseverance in the face of a hostile New World. These "Kino Missions" were surveyed in 1935 by the National Park Service to prepare for the restoration of the mission at Tumacacori, Arizona, then a National Historic Monument. That report, which was never published, provided insights into the missions' history and architecture that remain of lasting relevance. Perhaps more important, it documented these structures in photographs and drawings—the latter including floor plans and sketches of architectural detail—that today are of historic as well as aesthetic interest. This volume reproduces that 1935 report in its entirety, focusing on sixteen missions and including two maps, 52 drawings, and 76 photographs. With a new introduction and appendixes that place the original study in context, The Missions of Northern Sonora is an invaluable reference for scholars and mission visitors alike.

The Missions of Northern Sonora

The Missions of Northern Sonora
Title The Missions of Northern Sonora PDF eBook
Author Buford Pickens
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 244
Release 1993-05
Genre History
ISBN 9780816513567

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The Spanish missions founded by Padre Eusebio Kino in Sonora, Mexico, during the 1690s and early 1700s are historical as well as architectural marvels. Once self-supporting villages with central churches, the missions stand today as monuments to perseverance in the face of a hostile New World. These "Kino Missions" were surveyed in 1935 by the National Park Service to prepare for the restoration of the mission at Tumacacori, Arizona, then a National Historic Monument. That report, which was never published, provided insights into the missions' history and architecture that remain of lasting relevance. Perhaps more important, it documented these structures in photographs and drawings—the latter including floor plans and sketches of architectural detail—that today are of historic as well as aesthetic interest. This volume reproduces that 1935 report in its entirety, focusing on sixteen missions and including two maps, 52 drawings, and 76 photographs. With a new introduction and appendixes that place the original study in context, The Missions of Northern Sonora is an invaluable reference for scholars and mission visitors alike.

Saints, Statues, and Stories

Saints, Statues, and Stories
Title Saints, Statues, and Stories PDF eBook
Author James S. Griffith
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 177
Release 2019-10-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0816539618

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. . . we move to the town of Aconchi on the Río Sonora, where the mission church once contained a life-sized crucifix with a black corpus, known both as Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas . . . and El Cristo Negro de Aconchi . . . So describes well-known and beloved folklorist James S. Griffith as he takes us back through the decades to a town in northern Sonora where a statue is saved—and in so doing, a community is saved as well. In Saints, Statues, and Stories Griffith shares stories of nearly sixty years of traveling through Sonora. As we have come to expect through these journeys, “Big Jim”—as he is affectionately known by many—offers nothing less than the living traditions of Catholic communities. Themes of saints as agents of protection or community action are common throughout Sonora: a saint coming out of the church to protect the village, a statue having a say in where it resides and paying social calls to other communities, or a beloved image rescued from destruction and then revered on a private altar. A patron saint saves a village from outside attackers in one story—a story that has at least ten parallels in Sonora’s former mission communities. Details may vary, but the general narrative remains the same: when hostile nonbelievers attack the village, the patron saint of the church foils them. Griffith uncovers the meanings behind the devotional uses of religious art from a variety of perspectives—from artist to audience, preservationist to community member. The religious artworks transcend art objects, Griffith believes, and function as ways of communicating between this world and the next. Setting the stage with a brief geography, Griffith introduces us to roadside shrines, artists, fiestas, saints, and miracles. Full-color images add to the pleasure of this delightful journey through the churches and towns of Sonora.

Twilight of the Mission Frontier

Twilight of the Mission Frontier
Title Twilight of the Mission Frontier PDF eBook
Author Jose De la Torre Curiel
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 355
Release 2013-01-09
Genre History
ISBN 0804787328

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Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm—which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century—new light is shed on how demographic, cultural, economic, and institutional variables modified life in the Franciscan missions in Sonora. During the late eighteenth century, forms of interaction between Sonoran indigenous groups and Spanish settlers grew in complexity and intensity, due in part to the implementation of reform-minded Bourbon policies which envisioned a more secular, productive, and modern society. At the same time, new forms of what this book identifies as pluriethnic mobility also emerged. Franciscan missionaries and mission residents deployed diverse strategies to cope with these changes and results varied from region to region, depending on such factors as the missionaries' backgrounds, Indian responses to mission life, local economic arrangements, and cultural exchanges between Indians and Spaniards.

The Jesuit Missions of Northern Mexico

The Jesuit Missions of Northern Mexico
Title The Jesuit Missions of Northern Mexico PDF eBook
Author Charles W. Polzer
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 600
Release 1991
Genre History
ISBN 9780824020965

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The Bourbon Reforms and the Remaking of Spanish Frontier Missions

The Bourbon Reforms and the Remaking of Spanish Frontier Missions
Title The Bourbon Reforms and the Remaking of Spanish Frontier Missions PDF eBook
Author Robert H. Jackson
Publisher BRILL
Pages 379
Release 2022-01-17
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9004505261

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During the eighteenth century the Spanish Bourbon monarchs attempted to transform Spanish America. This study analyses the efforts to transform frontier missions, and the consequences and particularly demographic consequences for the indigenous peoples that lived on the missions.

A Visual Catalog of Spanish Frontier Missions, 16th to 19th Centuries

A Visual Catalog of Spanish Frontier Missions, 16th to 19th Centuries
Title A Visual Catalog of Spanish Frontier Missions, 16th to 19th Centuries PDF eBook
Author Robert H. Jackson
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 607
Release 2019-02-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1527527719

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From the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, the Spanish Crown sponsored missions staffed by members of different Catholic missionary orders to evangelize the indigenous populations, and engage in social engineering in line with royal policy. The missionaries directed the construction of building complexes that included churches, leaving behind an important historical and architectural legacy. This visual catalog documents the surviving complexes on selected missions on the frontiers of Spanish America in what today is Mexico and parts of South America. It also presents basic historical data on the mission communities, including demographic data, and documents damage to early mission buildings by the earthquakes of September 7 and September 19, 2018.