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Colonial Kinship - Guarani, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay (Paperback)
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Colonial Kinship - Guarani, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay (Paperback)
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Winner of the 2021 Bandelier/Lavrin Book Prize from the Rocky
Mountain Council for Latin American Studies 2021 Ermine
Wheeler-Voegelin Award Honorable Mention from the American Society
for Ethnohistory In Colonial Kinship: Guarani, Spaniards, and
Africans in Paraguay, 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 Guarani--one of the primary indigenous peoples
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 Guarani logic of kinship. In the colonial backwater of
Paraguay, conquistadors were forced to marry into Guarani families
in order to acquire indigenous tributaries, thereby becoming
"brothers-in-law" (tovaja) to Guarani chieftains. This pattern of
interethnic exchange infused colonial relations and institutions
with Guarani social meanings and expectations of reciprocity that
forever changed Spaniards, African slaves, and their descendants.
Austin demonstrates that Guarani of diverse social and political
positions actively shaped colonial society along indigenous lines.
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