Memory of the World - Latin America and the Caribbean
Art of the Moxa Language by Pedro Marban
It is an ethnolinguistic study of the Jesuit Father Pedro Marban a dictionary that intended to use this indigenous language Moxa or Momox Oporto 1989 for communication due to the diversity of the 22 languages spoken approximately in the Alto Mamore Block for teaching arts crafts and evangelization under the protection of the Viceroy of Peru and the Archbishopric of Lima The work is composed of 866 pages numbered discontinuously in an effort to help an effective conversion Oporto states about this document It is clear the practical utility that originated Marbán´s work the conversion of those infidels that had not yet been domesticated and secluded in the destructuring Jesuit reductions Oporto 1989 page 2This document emphasizes some privileges granted to the Indians where in addition to the holy days of obligation the new obligations are mentioned to which they should necessarily be governed in order to contract marriage already within the canons of the Catholic religion Oporto 1989 leaving aside its logics linked to polygamy that Marbán also highlights in the dictionaryThis Moxeño language is part of the Arawak linguistic family languages that were used from the Caribbean to the Amazon
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