Colonial Kinship - Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay (Hardcover)

In Colonial Kinship, historian Shawn Michael Austin traces the history of conquest and colonization in Paraguay during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Emphasizing the social and cultural agency of Guaraní - the indigenous people of Paraguay - not only in Jesuit missions but also in colonial settlements and Indian pueblos scattered in and around the Spanish city of Asuncion, Austin argues that interethnic relations and cultural change in Paraguay can only be properly understood through the Guaraní­ logic of kinship. In the colonial backwater of Paraguay, conquistadors were forced to marry into Guaraní­ families in order to acquire indigenous tributaries, thereby becoming "brothers-in-law" (tovají) to Guaraní­ chieftains. This pattern of interethnic exchange infused colonial relations and institutions with Guaraní­ social meanings and expectations of reciprocity that forever changed Spaniards, African slaves, and their descendants. Austin demonstrates that Guaraní­ of diverse social and political positions actively shaped colonial society along indigenous lines.

General

Imprint:	University of New Mexico Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2020
Authors:	Shawn Michael Austin
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-8263-6196-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8263-6196-X
Barcode:	9780826361967

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