In this volume, Elman R. Service describes the Guarani culture at the time of Spanish colonization in Paraguay and explores the reasons why the encomienda syste

In Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay, historian Shawn Michael Austin traces the history of conquest and colonization in Paraguay d

This ethnographic study is a revisionist view of the most significant and widely known mission system in Latin America—that of the Jesuit missions to the Guara