The Aché and Guaraní

Thirty Years after Maybury-Lewis and Howe's Report on Genocide in Paraguay

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ID5223558
AuthorsRichard Reed (0000-0002-7560-2941), John Renshaw (0000-0002-5774-5877, University of Kent)
Year2012
Volume10
Issue1
Pages1-18
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
Venue1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1652-4772 • E-ISSN: 2001-9866
PublisherTrinity University Coates Library - DC Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.70845/2572-3626.1151
OpenAlexW2115741060
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited8

For decades, scholars have wrestled with the moral issues raised by their privileged knowledge, skills and power. These issues came to a head in Latin American in the 1970s, as the worsening conditions of indigenous peoples’ galvanized activists to create institutions for immediate action. In quick succession, The Anthropological Resource Center (ARC), Cultural Survival, Survival International, and The International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) were organized to marshal information and raise public awareness of the plight of indigenous peoples. Articles were published, reports written and scholars became public figures in the ethical and political debates of lowland, forest peoples. Over thirty years have passed; it is useful to return to some of this early work and reassess its place, both in indigenous peoples’ struggles and in the history of our own activism. The following explores one of these early reports, Cultural Survival’s investigation of the reports of genocide of the Ache and Guarani peoples of Eastern Paraguay

Ethnology · Genocide · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health and Education · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology

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