Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Repositioning the Missionary : Rewriting the Histories of Colonialism, Native Catholicism, and Indigeneity in Guam / Vicente M. Diaz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific Islands Monographs SeriesPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 14 illusContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780824834340
  • 9780824860462
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 266/.296709032 22
LOC classification:
  • BV3680.G8 D53 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Editor's Note -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part One. From Above: Working the Native -- Chapter 1. The Mission Positio -- Chapter 2. The Oral Cavity -- Part Two. From Below: Working the Saint -- Chapter 3. The Sweet Spot -- Chapter 4. Traffic on the Mount -- Part Three. From Behind: Transgressive Histories -- Chapter 5. Disrobing the Man -- Chapter 6. Kinship with Matå'pang -- Epilogue: In the Shadow of Mass Destruction -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: In the vein of an emergent Native Pacific brand of cultural studies, Repositioning the Missionary critically examines the cultural and political stakes of the historic and present-day movement to canonize Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627-1672), the Spanish Jesuit missionary who was martyred by Mata'pang of Guam while establishing the Catholic mission among the Chamorros in the Mariana Islands. The work juxtaposes official, popular, and critical perspectives of the movement to complicate prevailing ideas about colonialism, historiography, and indigenous culture and identity in the Pacific.The book is divided into three sections. The first, "From Above, Working the Native," focuses exclusively on the narratological reconsolidation of official Roman Catholic Church viewpoints as staked in the historic (seventeenth century) and contemporary (twentieth century) movements to canonize San Vitores, including the symbolic costs of these viewpoints for Native Chamorro cultural and political possibilities not in line with Church views. Section two, "From Below: Working the Saint," shifts attention and perspective to local, competing forms of Chamorro piety. In their effort to canonize San Vitores, Natives also rework the saint to negotiate new cultural and social canons for themselves and in ways that produce new meanings for their island. "From Behind: Transgressive Histories" shifts from official and lay Roman and Chamorro Catholic viewpoints to the author's own critical project of rendering alternative portrayals of San Vitores and Mata'pang.Theoretically innovative and provocative, humorous, and inspired, Repositioning the Missionary melds poststructuralist, feminist, Native studies, and cultural studies analytic and political frameworks with an intensely personal voice to model a new critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of indigenous culture and history.

Frontmatter -- Editor's Note -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part One. From Above: Working the Native -- Chapter 1. The Mission Positio -- Chapter 2. The Oral Cavity -- Part Two. From Below: Working the Saint -- Chapter 3. The Sweet Spot -- Chapter 4. Traffic on the Mount -- Part Three. From Behind: Transgressive Histories -- Chapter 5. Disrobing the Man -- Chapter 6. Kinship with Matå'pang -- Epilogue: In the Shadow of Mass Destruction -- Notes -- References -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

In the vein of an emergent Native Pacific brand of cultural studies, Repositioning the Missionary critically examines the cultural and political stakes of the historic and present-day movement to canonize Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627-1672), the Spanish Jesuit missionary who was martyred by Mata'pang of Guam while establishing the Catholic mission among the Chamorros in the Mariana Islands. The work juxtaposes official, popular, and critical perspectives of the movement to complicate prevailing ideas about colonialism, historiography, and indigenous culture and identity in the Pacific.The book is divided into three sections. The first, "From Above, Working the Native," focuses exclusively on the narratological reconsolidation of official Roman Catholic Church viewpoints as staked in the historic (seventeenth century) and contemporary (twentieth century) movements to canonize San Vitores, including the symbolic costs of these viewpoints for Native Chamorro cultural and political possibilities not in line with Church views. Section two, "From Below: Working the Saint," shifts attention and perspective to local, competing forms of Chamorro piety. In their effort to canonize San Vitores, Natives also rework the saint to negotiate new cultural and social canons for themselves and in ways that produce new meanings for their island. "From Behind: Transgressive Histories" shifts from official and lay Roman and Chamorro Catholic viewpoints to the author's own critical project of rendering alternative portrayals of San Vitores and Mata'pang.Theoretically innovative and provocative, humorous, and inspired, Repositioning the Missionary melds poststructuralist, feminist, Native studies, and cultural studies analytic and political frameworks with an intensely personal voice to model a new critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of indigenous culture and history.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)