This thesis studies how Paraguayan literature about the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870), written in the 1920s, addresses both historical trauma and revisionism by reacting to the prevailing liberal historiography of the war. The thesis analyzes war narratives by three dif…
Background: Medical pluralism, has long been prevalent in Latin America and the world; as biomedical care is increasingly available in areas where it was previously unfound, its interaction with traditional systems of medicine interact is largely understudied. Paraguay has a lon…
As plantations of mono-cropped cash crops continue to expand globally, small farmers and peasants continue to make out a living at the edges of plantations. Though it draws on long histories of traditional farming, agroecology emerged as alternative set of agricultural practices…
Part One. Beginnings -- Cuñadasgo and conquistador polygamists, 1530s-1550s -- Institutionalizing kinship: the encomienda and Franciscan reducciones, 1550s-1640s -- Embodied borders: conflict and convergence in Guairá, 1570s-1630s -- Part Two. Challenges -- Resplendent prophets …
"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-the indigenous peo…
"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-the indigenous peo…
This dissertation focuses on Black Spots, parts of the world that are outside of effective governmental control and capable of breeding and exporting insecurity, yet remaining relatively off the radar of international attention. Such areas are likely to offer fertile environment…
Psychologists have found several difficulties in attempting to apply Western psychology in other regions of the world, which led them to question the validity, universality, and applicability of existing psychological theories (Kim, Yang, & Hwang, 2006). This situation highlight…
The Triple Border Area (TBA) between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay is major hub for international crime that generates billions of dollars annually and is the most important center for financing Islamic terrorism outside the Middle East. The primary criminal activities in the T…
This dissertation locates Spanish American orientalism at the intersection of an East/West divide and a North/South one, as each of these binary oppositions in itself is insufficient to explain the relationship between Spanish America and Asia. In the colonial period, Spanish Am…
Paraguay has set itself ambitious development goals for 2030. To achieve them, it will have to tackle two major challenges: buttressing sources of sustainable economic prosperity and putting the country on a more inclusive development path. Progressing towards a more inclusive s…
