The Effect of Infrastructure Development on Fictive Kin Choice Patterns in Rural Paraguay

Abstract

This chapter is a comparison of fictive kin choice patterns in an interior frontier community in Paraguay over the history of that community. I gathered the data in 1984–1986, 1990–1991, 1995, and 2003. At each stage of the research, I assumed that there would be some measurable shift to fictive kin choices from horizontal local choices to vertical choices outside of the community due to infrastructure changes and increased access to markets.

Citation

Turner, C. (2006), "The Effect of Infrastructure Development on Fictive Kin Choice Patterns in Rural Paraguay", Wood, D.C. (Ed.) Choice in Economic Contexts (Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 25), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 201-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0190-1281(06)25009-1