Uprooting Without Proletarianization in the Paraguayan Agricultural Sector by Ramón Bruno Fogel Pedroso

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Paola Canova, Frontier Intimacies. Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco by María Agustina Morando

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A relação entre trabalho, cooperação e solidariedade na formação da Cooperativa Colonizadora Multiativa Fernheim Ltda no Chaco Paraguaio by Luana Jamayna Gellert, Paula Cecilia Pérez Reyes, Valmor Schiochet

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Literatura paraguaya: un grito en voz baja by Bernardo NERI FARINA

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Tierra Roja (2006) / La terre des hommes rouges (2008) by Carla Fernandes

“…The young Paraguayan Ramiro Gómez’s documentary Tierra roja (Red earth - 2006) sprung in the first place from an order commissioned by the ONG Helvetas Paraguay, which finally ended up in a film shot to relate the encounter of four families, two peasant and two native ones, living in the Paraguayan rural environment. …”
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Del Vaingka al Choqueo. Sociabilidad y ritual de los angaité a partir de la colonización del Chaco (1880) by Rodrigo Villagra Carron

“…In this article I explore the relation between social composition and exchange amongst Angaité villages of the Paraguayan Chaco and feasts such as the boy’s initiation ritual called Vaingka and the traditional dance known as Choqueo. …”
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Guerre et récit chez les Indiens ayorés du Chaco boréal paraguayen by Salvatore D’Onofrio

“…Warfare and Story among the Ayoreo Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco. For the Ayoreo Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, warfare is not something just to be fought, it is also something to be recounted in stories. …”
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La lengua guaraní dependiente en tiempos de Independencia en Paraguay by Bartomeu Melià (S. J.)

“…By some strange paradox, after the proclamation of Paraguayan independence in 1811, Guaraní texts were no longer found, even though Paraguayans went on communicating in Guaraní language on a daily basis, as reported by numerous travellers who visited the country in the 19th century.…”
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The introduction of the Stanford-Binet intelligence scales in Paraguay by José E. García

“…It also contributes to extend previous papers focused on the author’s works and Paraguayan psychology during the pre-university period.…”
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Literatura y “contra-historia”: los discursos del origen en Yo el Supremo y Moi, Toussaint Louverture by Javier Uriarte

“…These texts revisit Paraguayan and Haitian history respectively and suggest new readings of the national hero and the origins of the nation. …”
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Élisée Reclus e a Guerra do Paraguai by Hervé Théry, Sébastien Velut

“…Reading the article by Èlisée Reclus "The Paraguayan War", which he published in the Revue des Deux Mondes December 15, 1867, shows that despite its a priori view favorable to Paraguay (compared by him to revolutionary France) makes a penetrating analysis of power relations between the belligerents and anticipates the consequences of the conflict.…”
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Le guarani dans la poésie bilingue : renégocier les notions d’exception et de marginalité by Manon Naro

“…By analysing the discourse about Paraguayan literature and studying several contemporary bilingual poetry books, we shall try to perceive how the story of this poetry is constructed and reconstructed, from the stigma of marginality and exception to the renegotiation of these notions aiming to build a poetry of the resistance.…”
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Réévaluer le rôle de la société civile dans la transition démocratique paraguayenne (1989-2019) by Julien Demelenne, Damien Larrouqué

“…The academic literature presents Paraguayan civil society as fragile or atomized. We wish to put in perspective this pessimistic and even conservative vision, by demonstrating that civil society has been an important player in the democratic transition. …”
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Ujnarone Chosite: Ritual Poesis, Curing Chants and Becoming Ayoreo in the Gran Chaco by Lucas Bessire

“…This essay describes the ujnarone curing chants among the so-called Ayoreo Indians of the Bolivian and Paraguayan Gran Chaco as a communicative and media technology whose potency was rooted in the multiplicities of social time and the dynamism of performative contexts. …”
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La langue guarani, symbole instrumentalisé de la construction de la nation paraguayenne by Christine Pic-Gillard

“…The Paraguayan nation was built on the myth of  a hybrid nation composed of the best of the Guarani culture and the best of the Hispanic culture. …”
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Linguagem, espaço e nação: um mapeamento das identidades multigeográficas do protagonista imigrante by Cecily Raynor

“…In this paper, I analyze works portraying migration:Estive em Lisboa e lembrei devocê(2009), by Luiz Ruffatto, a work centered on the story of a Brazilian migrantto Lisbon, andMar Paraguayo(1992 ), by Wilson Bueno, which recounts the taleof a Paraguayan prostitute living inGuaratuba. Specifically, I argue thatcontemporary migration-themed novels challenge, stretch and/or interruptnarrative time-space cohesion by obscuring, often gradually, the boundaries between the national and transnational. …”
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D’infimes différences. Pratique et circulation des jeux de ficelle chez les femmes du Chaco paraguayen by David Jabin

“…Based on fieldwork carried out in the central Paraguayan Chaco, where indigenous people live in agricultural settlements established by the Mennonites to implement intensive agriculture, the author compares the string figure making of Nivacle and Enlhet women in two neighboring communities. …”
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La querelle des noms. Chaînes et strates ethnonymiques dans le Chaco boréal by Nicolas Richard

“…Does the advent of an anthroponym as an ethnic name confirm the ethnocentric character of these societies or is it more likely a result of the dismantling of inter-ethnic relations and ultimately of the occupation and colonization of the Chaco after the Paraguayan-Bolivian war? Based on work by different authors, this article analyzes the different ethnonymic strata in the northern Chaco beginning with the most recent ones and reaching back to those from the colonial era. …”
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Business elites and the process of democratization in Paraguay by Luis Ortiz-Sandoval, Guillermo Rojas

“…From this framework, the paper exposes how the Paraguayan business elites, as the most dynamic sector of the ruling class, not only led the removal of the authoritarian regime of the ex-dictator Alfredo Stroessner, but also guided the economic management and the redesign of the institutional architecture of the republic according to their interests and the privileges obtained during the dictatorship. …”
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Dynamiques identitaires anciennes et actuelles chez les Aché du Paraguay oriental : éléments de compréhension by Philippe Edeb Piragi

“…Based on fieldwork begun in 1986, the author analyses the driving forces behind Aché self-assertion, exploring the conceptions of self and other of this Eastern Paraguayan group of tupi speakers who have repeatedly and successfully resisted assimilation by the Guarani. …”
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