Adaptaciones y apropiaciones en una cultura textual de frontera: impresos misionales del Paraguay Jesuítico

In 1700, the Jesuits established the fi rst printing press in the Rio de la Plata region, which operated in the Guarani missions for twenty-seven years, printing several doctrinal, linguistic and historic books. Only half of the books have been located in dif- ferent libraries and archives throughout the world. Recent fi ndings suggest that these books used to circulate throughout the South American provinces of the Society of Jesus and were used in diff erent regions of missionary action. An exhaustive typology of the books printed in the Guarani missions does not exist to date. First, this article presents a general characterization of the activity of the missions' press in the Guarani reductions. Second, it explores the corpus and proposes an approach for its classifi cation and analysis. Th ird, it proposes some interpretations about the circulation and reception of these texts in the context of the missions' cultural production.