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Tobati, a village in rural Paraguay, was the subject of a community study by anthropologists Elman and Helen Service in 1948. The results of that study were published by the University of Chicago Press in 1954 as Tobati Paraguayan Town. In their monograph, the Services characterized the town as "typical" of rural Paraguayan communities based on a peasant-type economy and conservative social traditions. They also offered proof that, contrary to popular belief, the ethnic character of rural Paraguayans was not "Indian"; rather, it was an adaptation of lower-class peninsular Spanish culture. The present work is a longitudinal study showing the most significant ways that the town of Tobati has changed in the forty years since the first anthropologists were there. Employing a cultural materialist paradigm, the study examines changes in modes of production and associates those changes with the emerging economic, demographic, technological, and environmental characteristics of Paraguay in the context of developmentalism, or "modernization" of traditional societies. The text of the study embeds the contemporary history of the town (during the past forty years) within the broader history of

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Author

Hay, James Diego.

Publisher

1993.

Published

1993

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction