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   [Date]: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 15:05:28 -0600
   [From]: Juan JosŽ D’az Infante  <jdiazinfante@altamiracave.com>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] About a Jesuitic Republic

Josette

Morelia was designed  as described in Utopia by Thomas More.

Juan

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>From: Josette Balsa <jobalsa@usa.net>
>Subject: [forum1] About a Jesuitic Republic
>Date: 23 Dec 1999

> To Raul and others interested in the matter he raises in his lasst
> e-mail:
>
> Yes we should add to Max Weber and Fernand Braudel exhaustive (or not
> so) studies about the raise of capitalism in Europe some studies about
> slavery in the Americas.
>
> I would like to raise your attention, Raul,  about writings concerning
> the Republic of the Guaranis, created by the Jesuits in the region where
> Igua=E7u Falls are located, border of Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina. The
> movie THE MISSION showed the birth and destruction of the Missions.
> Ruins may still visited in the southern part of Brazil and I remember
> that there are some anthropological films made by Simon Beck about "As
> Miss=F5es" and many writings by Brazilian anthropologists and sociologists
> about this Utopian Republic.
>
> Josette