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      The many faces of Baltasar da Costa: imitatio and accommodatio in the seventeenth century Madurai mission Translated title: As máscaras de Baltasar da Costa: imitatio e accommodatio na missão de Madurai (século XVII)

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          The Jesuit Baltasar da Costa devoted his life to the Madurai mission in seventeenth century Tamil Nadu during the rule of the Nāyaka kings. He was the first Christian missionary to style himself as a paṇṭāram, a Śaiva priest to the lower castes. This paper will argue that his mimetic practice can best be appreciated if read bi-directionally, through the language of European humanism and religious thought, as well as through the new symbolic codes of Nāyaka political order. The article also considers the limits of Costa’s mimetic practice in terms of its success as an evangelical strategy and in the extent to which it was ultimately predicated upon the maintenance of alterity and not the dissolution of difference.

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          O jesuíta Baltasar da Costa dedicou a sua vida à missão de Madurai em Tamil Nadu, durante o governo dos reis Nāyaka, no século XVII. Este artigo argumenta que a sua prática mimética pode ser apreciada quando entendida de forma bidirecional, através da linguagem do humanismo e do pensamento religioso europeus, bem como através dos novos códigos simbólicos da ordem política Nāyaka. Consideram-se também os limites da prática mimética de Costa, em termos do seu sucesso como prática evangélica e, ainda, atendendo ao facto de pressupor, em última instância, a manutenção da alteridade em vez da dissolução da diferença.

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          Ways of Lying: Dissimulation, Persecution and Conformity in Early Modern Europe

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                Journal
                etn
                Etnográfica
                Etnográfica
                Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia - CRIA (Lisboa )
                0873-6561
                February 2014
                : 18
                : 1
                : 135-158
                Affiliations
                [1 ] The American University in Cairo Egypt
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                S0873-65612014000100007
                3760e626-d2a7-440e-b325-62df132e1553

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                ANTHROPOLOGY

                Anthropology
                mimesis,Jesuit missionaries,Madurai,Portuguese imperialism,mimese,missionários jesuítas,imperialismo português

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