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Storytelling globalization from the Chaco and beyond / Mario Blaser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blaser, Mario, 1966-
- Series:
- New ecologies for the twenty-first century.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New ecologies for the twenty-first century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chamacoco Indians--Paraguay.
- Chamacoco Indians.
- Ethnology--Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia).
- Ethnology.
- Globalization--Economic aspects--Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia).
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Social aspects--Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects of the Yshiro indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, and the agendas of scholars and activists.
- Contents:
- Laissez-faire progress : invisibilizing the Yrmo
- State-driven development : stabilizing modernity
- Sustainable development : modernity unravels?
- Enacting the Yrmo
- Taming differences
- Translating neoliberalism
- A world in which many worlds (are forced to) fit
- Becoming the Yshiro nation
- Reality check
- Eisheraho/renewal.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065025
- 9781283065023
- 1283065029
- 9780822391180
- 082239118X
- OCLC:
- 662616861
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