Werkenalu Dios ta ñi zungu / para llevar el mensaje de dios: Los catecismos en lengua indígena en el área territorial mapuche (s. XIX

Abstract

In the complex context of Conquest processes, evangelization took part in the cultural imposition of hegemony. This paper deals with one of the instruments used to spread Christian faith: the bilingual catechisms that were used by the catholic missions settled in the Mapuche territorial area. This type of texts were produced by members of diverse orders and congregations Jesuits in XVII/XVIII centuries, Franciscans, Lazarists and Salesians in XIX/XX, and they were highly utilized during the military campaigns and after they finished, late in XIX century, in both sides of the Andean ridge. The exam of the documental corpus enables us to detail some doctrinal adaptations in the diverse evangelization contexts and, taking them in account, analyse continuities and variants in the different texts as well as considere the intertextual framework in its entirely.