This new book on Paraguay brings to students and scholars a multidisciplinary approach rarely seen or equaled. This collective work includes a chronology with more than 35 dates that covers the period from 1981 to 2020. An introduction by Barbara A. Ganson selects important aspects of Paraguayan history, from the beginnings of the colony until the twenty-first century. While the first three chapters are anthropological essays, the last three essays take a political and economic approach, making this volume well balanced.
In the first chapter, René D. Harder Horst immerses us in the struggles of Paraguay's Indigenous peoples from the second half of the twentieth century until the advent of the 1992 constitution. Horst addresses the sufferings of and difficulties faced by the country's Indigenous peoples and also takes into account the different political strategies of a good number of Indigenous leaders of the country. This chapter is especially striking...
