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reducciones

Mission villages in Spanish Latin American colonies which were used to concentrate the indigenous Indian populations and convert them to Christianity. Similar villages in Portuguese colonies were called ‘reduções’.



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Entre estas reducciones, tambien esta una larga lista donde se pueden ahorrar otros $440 millones, dijo el gobernador.
In these early memorials, he seemed indifferent to the way in which converting them to Christianity, moving them into reducciones, or making them subjects of Spain might have affected their traditional way of life" (76).
Among their topics are the telescope in the Baroque imagination, a dialogue on good government in Spanish Naples, and modernity and coloniality in the Jesuits' reducciones in Paraguay.
 
 
 
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