Japanese elites as seen by Jesuit Missionaries. Perceptions of social and political inequality among the elites

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Main Author: Ana Fernandes Pinto
Format: Artículo científico
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Published: Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2000
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contents Japanese elites as seen by Jesuit Missionaries. Perceptions of social and political inequality among the elites Ana Fernandes Pinto Historia This article attempts to present an overview of the missionaries’ view of thesocial and political scenario of Japan, which resulted from their increased interactionwith the Japanese elite. These impressions, reconstructed from letters sent bymembers of the Society of Jesus living in the Japanese archipelago in the 16th century,are however without doubt only a partial and selective portrayal of the prevalentrealities. In the first place because it depended on the logic of the missionaries’operations, i.e. the specific elite with whom they interacted and the degree of successor failure of the contact that they managed to establish. Secondly, because thoseimpressions are based on Western cultural standards. In this way, one can comprehendin what manner the support given by the elites was reflected in a more or lessdistorted apresentation of reality, and understand the impact of Western on theJesuit descriptions of another civilization. 2000 artículo científico 0874-8438 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100103 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=361 Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies application/pdf Universidade Nova de Lisboa Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies (Portugal) Num.1
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spellingShingle Japanese elites as seen by Jesuit Missionaries. Perceptions of social and political inequality among the elites
Ana Fernandes Pinto
Historia
Japanese elites as seen by Jesuit Missionaries. Perceptions of social and political inequality among the elites Ana Fernandes Pinto Historia This article attempts to present an overview of the missionaries’ view of thesocial and political scenario of Japan, which resulted from their increased interactionwith the Japanese elite. These impressions, reconstructed from letters sent bymembers of the Society of Jesus living in the Japanese archipelago in the 16th century,are however without doubt only a partial and selective portrayal of the prevalentrealities. In the first place because it depended on the logic of the missionaries’operations, i.e. the specific elite with whom they interacted and the degree of successor failure of the contact that they managed to establish. Secondly, because thoseimpressions are based on Western cultural standards. In this way, one can comprehendin what manner the support given by the elites was reflected in a more or lessdistorted apresentation of reality, and understand the impact of Western on theJesuit descriptions of another civilization. 2000 artículo científico 0874-8438 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100103 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=361 Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies application/pdf Universidade Nova de Lisboa Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies (Portugal) Num.1
title Japanese elites as seen by Jesuit Missionaries. Perceptions of social and political inequality among the elites
topic Historia
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