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Lacson, Paul Albert.

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Ambiguities of conquest: Indians and missionaries in Alta California, 1769--1834.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ambiguities of conquest: Indians and missionaries in Alta California, 1769--1834./
Author:	Lacson, Paul Albert.
Description:	204 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-03, Section: A, page: 1063.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-03A.
Subject:	History, Church. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3396872
ISBN:	9781109662023

Ambiguities of conquest: Indians and missionaries in Alta California, 1769--1834.
Lacson, Paul Albert.

Ambiguities of conquest: Indians and missionaries in Alta California, 1769--1834. - 204 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-03, Section: A, page: 1063.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2009.

My main argument in the dissertation is that ambiguity characterized the conquest of California. Challenging the dominant narrative that Franciscan missionaries possessed the wherewithal to convince thousands of coastal California Indians to forsake their native ways in order to become loyal Catholic subjects of the Spanish crown, my dissertation argues that Native Californians made creative use of Spanish colonization to suit their native purposes. In doing so, we find that unlike Franciscan missionaries, California Indians assumed and embraced ambiguity as a defining characteristic of their relationship to Catholicism and Spanish culture.

ISBN: 9781109662023Subjects--Topical Terms:

1020179
History, Church.

Ambiguities of conquest: Indians and missionaries in Alta California, 1769--1834.
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520 $a This dissertation questions dichotomies that historians have taken for granted as almost natural: Christian Indians vs. non-Christian Indians, Hispanicized Indians vs. non-Hispanicized Indians, mission Indians vs. non-mission Indians, and neophytes vs. gentiles. Based on the documentation left behind by Franciscan missionaries and subsequent historians, one gets the impression that if you walked from a mission compound into a native community, the differences would be stark and easily observed: language, food, clothing, the built environment, spiritual rituals, daily subsistence practices, and even the most intimate sexual relationships would have been different. If we are to believe the Franciscan missionaries, the reason for such differences derived from the success of the Franciscans at converting Indians to the Catholic faith and introducing them to "civilization.".
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