........................................................................................................................................ 5 Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................... 7 Prologue ........................................................................................................................................ 9 01. Historical context .................................................................................................................. 15 02. Contextual Epistemic Permissibility ...................................................................................... 31 Waltraud – quotidian Germanness ......................................................................................... 31 Gringos, Hiesige, and Verhiesigen – examples of nationalect ................................................ 33 Carlos – work ethics of Paraguayanness ................................................................................. 35 Germanino – another category ............................................................................................... 38 Contextual epistemic permissibility ........................................................................................ 43 Ontic implications? ................................................................................................................. 46 Analytical, methodological and aesthetic complementarity .................................................. 48 Complementarity of narrators, analysts, and form ................................................................ 58 03. Twelve Journeys .................................................................................................................... 62 03.01 Waltraud Haudenschield ............................................................................................... 65 Photography, indexicality, and intertextuality ........................................................................ 73 03.02 Gerda Kück .................................................................................................................... 80 Contextual epistemic permissibility and the concept of self .................................................. 91 03.03 Danilo Haudenschild Fischer ......................................................................................... 99 Teodoro's anti-Semitism ....................................................................................................... 104 03.04 Fidel Alejandro Benitez Cardenas ............................................................................... 109 03.05 Arnold Garcia Pavon .................................................................................................... 114 Semantic editing .................................................................................................................... 126 Negotiating epistemic frameworks ....................................................................................... 131 03.06 Klaus Neumann Gorlitz ................................................................................................ 137 Contextual epistemic permissibility and agency ................................................................... 174 03.07 Juana Mercedes Benítez López ................................................................................... 181 03.08 Calixtro Ramirez .......................................................................................................... 194 A form of ethnography .......................................................................................................... 202 Theories of Nationalism ........................................................................................................ 219 03.09 Carlos Alberto Benítez Vázquez .................................................................................. 234 Detlef Venhaus ...................................................................................................................... 243 Campesinos – a social category............................................................................................. 251 03.10 Pedro Hernan Halke Arevalos ..................................................................................... 255 Campesinos in Paraguay ....................................................................................................... 266 03.11 Cecilio Alcaráz Sanchez ............................................................................................... 274 03.12 Abel Rodrigo Pavon Acosta ......................................................................................... 281 Internal battles ...................................................................................................................... 289 Conclusions ............................................................................................................................... 293 Bibliography .............................................................................................................................. 299