Jesuit mission and the globalization of knowledge of the Americas: Florian Paucke's Hin und her in the province of ‘paraquaria' during the eighteenth century

Abstract

This article addresses the early globalization phase of the Jesuit Order in America through Florian Paucke's work Hin und Her.¹ Special attention is given to the analysis of the field of tensions underlying the proto-globalization processes of the Spanish empire and the frontier mission, for which three narrative components are considered: ‘Paraquaria'² and the cartography of the spiritual ‘mission'; a reflection on intercultural stereotypes (indigenous, Spaniards and Germans); and the deconstruction of the autonomist myth of Nicolás I, King of Paraguay. © 2018 Rolando Carrasco M., published by De Gruyter.