GuaranÃ, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay
Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-0-8263-6440-1
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
2021 Ermine Wheeler-Voegelin Award Honorable Mention from the American Society for Ethnohistory
In Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, 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 Guaraní--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 Asunción, 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" (tovajá) 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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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
Weitere Infos & Material
- List of Illustrations
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Part One. Beginnings
- Chapter One. Cuñadasgo and Conquistador Polygamists, 1530s-1550s
- Chapter Two. Institutionalizing Kinship: The Encomienda and Franciscan Reducciones, 1550s-1640s
- Chapter Three. Embodied Borders: Conflict and Convergence in Guairá, 1570s-1630s
- Part Two. Challenges
- Chapter Four. Resplendent Prophets and Vengeful Warriors: Guaraní Rejection of Colonial Rule
- Chapter Five. Indios Fronterizos and the Spanish-Guaraní Militias
- Part Three. Communities
- Chapter Six. Beyond the Missions: Guaraní Reducciones in Asunción's Orbit
- Chapter Seven. The Other Reducción: Asunción's Indios
- Chapter Eight. Beyond Mestizos: Afro-Guaraní Relations
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
