| Description |
1 online resource (x, 349 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction. The Gran Chaco of South America in Transnational and Multidisciplinary Perspectives / Silvia Hirsch, Paola Canova, and Mercedes Biocca -- The Rise and Fall of an Indigenous Homeland : The River Itiyuro Basin in Argentina / Federico Bossert -- Was the Chiriguano a Colonial Fabrication? Linguistic Arguments for Rethinking Guaraní and Chané Histories in the Chaco / Bret Gustafson -- Cosmology of Development : Humanitarian Narratives and Missionary Work in the Argentine Gran Chaco / César Ceriani Cernadas -- "They only know the public roads" : Enlhet Territoriality during the Colonization of Their Lands / Hannes Kalisch -- Death Ritual as Ethnopoeisis : A Farewell to an Angaité shaman / Rodrigo Villagra Carron -- Between Resistance and Acquiescence : Experiences of Agrarian Transformation in Two Indigenous Communities in Chaco Province, Argentina / Mercedes Biocca -- Infrastructures of settler colonialism : Geographies of violence, Indigenous labor, and marginal resistance in Paraguay's Chaco / Joel E. Correia -- Tense Territories : Negotiating Natural Gas in Weenhayek Society / Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Guido Cortez -- The Guaraní People's Struggle for Indigenous Autonomy in Bolivia / Nancy Postero -- Ayoreo Women and Access to Healthcare : Negotiating the Multicultural Reform of the State in Paraguay / Paola Canova -- Multiterritoriality and the Tapiete Trinational Experience in the Chaco / Silvia Hirsch -- Afterword : The Contested Terrain of the Gran Chaco / Gastón Gordillo |
| Summary |
"This volume traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a vast and richly biodiverse ecoregion at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Representing a wide range of contemporary anthropological scholarship that has not been available in English until now, Reimagining the Gran Chaco illuminates how the region's many Indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms. The essays in this volume explore how the region has become a complex arena of political, cultural, and economic contestation between actors that include the state, environmental groups and NGOs, and private businesses and how local actors are reconfiguring their subjectivities and political agency in response. With its multinational perspective, and its examination of major themes including missionization, millenarian movements, the Chaco war, industrial enclaves, extractivism, political mobilization, and the struggle for rights, this volume brings greater visibility to an underrepresented, complex region." -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 22, 2021) |
| Subject |
Indians of South America -- Gran Chaco -- Ethnic identity
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Indians of South America -- Gran Chaco -- Politics and government
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Indians of South America -- Gran Chaco -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
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Ecology
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Indians of South America -- Ethnic identity
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Indians of South America -- Politics and government
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Indians of South America -- Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Gran Chaco -- Environmental conditions
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Gran Chaco -- History
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| Subject |
South America -- Gran Chaco
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hirsch, Silvia María, editor
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Canova, Paola, editor
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Biocca, Mercedes, editor
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| LC no. |
2021007600 |
| ISBN |
9781683403357 |
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1683403355 |
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9781683402459 |
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1683402456 |
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9781683402985 |
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1683402987 |
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