Visita De Las Misiones Del Nayarit, 1768 1769

Visita document produced by the priest sent to report on the vacated Jesuit missions in 1768-69 has especially abundant ethnohistorical materials on conversion. Introduction by Jean Meyer furnishes the context on missions and religious anthropology. Compares Nayarit with the demographic disasters of California and other missionary provinces –Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.