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