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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Classen, Albrecht |
| Title, Analytic | Ignaz Pfefferkorn, ein jesuitischer Missionar in der Neuen Welt: Ein Beitrag zur deutschamerikanischen Reiseliteratur der Fruehneuzeit |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 1997 |
| Volume ID | 32 |
| Location in Work | 21-45 |
| Abstract | Although German and Swiss Jesuit missionaries made important contributions to early exploration and development of Sonora (Northern Mexico and Southern Arizona)and left many significant accounts in German and Spanish, these texts have attracted very little attention among scholars. Ignaz Pfefferkorn's Beschreibung der Landschaft Sonora is for the first time critically examined from the point of view of early German-American literature, travel literature, and xenology. His work is an excellent report on the landscape as well as containing outstanding anthropological observations. Pfefferkorn's attitude toward the various Indian tribes and their relationship with the Europeans is analyzed. |
| Call Number | MKI periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Missions/ Travel in literature/ 18th century/ Native Americans/ Literature, German-American |