‘Mission science’ in Early Twentieth-Century Araucanía:
Tensions between Indigenous and Missionary Knowledge
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Missionaries, Science, Missionswissenschaft , Araucania, Mapuche, WillicheAbstract
Historiographically speaking, the evangelizing and educational endeavors of missions and missionaries of different orders in Araucanía have been investigated since the 1980s. Still lacking, however, are studies of the scientific knowledge that was generated about the Mapuche-Williche people, especially concerning the nature and motivation of such efforts. Our contribution deals with the context and incentives that led Capuchin missionaries from Bavaria to study the Mapuche people. We examine their conventual formation, the influence of the so-called ‘Missionswissenschaft’ or ‘science of the mission’, and the way scientific work was embarked upon once the missionaries arrived in Araucania. For this purpose, institutional sources and publications are consulted, ranging from missionary chronicles to articles that appeared in contemporary scientific journals.
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