Lux et Tenebris? Coloniality and Anglican Missions in Argentine Patagonia in the Nineteenth Century

Within the modern capitalist World-System, Missionary work was mostly developed through connubiality with colonial powers. The missionary of Anglican Church is no exception. This article centers on enterprise carried out in Argentine Patagonia nineteenth century. Missionaries’ reports carefully narrated that venture. However, language and notions underlying work’s narration reveal dominion ideologies imbued how religious agents constructed alterity. Connecting missionaries’ worldview political context expansion British Empire allows us to unfold complex intersections religious, ethnic, racial, geopolitical discourses traverse lives indigenous peoples South America.