Frontier intimacies : Ayoreo women and the sexual economy of the Paraguayan Chaco / Paola Canova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canova, Paola, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moro Indians--Social life and customs.

Moro Indians.

Mennonites--Paraguay--Social life and customs.

Mennonites.

Manners and customs.

Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia)--Social life and customs.

Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia).

Mennonites--Social life and customs.

Paraguay.

South America--Chaco Boreal.

Physical Description:

xi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020.

Summary:

"This book is an ethnography of the Ayoreo of the Chaco region of Bolivia-Paraguay, among the last groups of South America's indigenous people to be "contacted." The book focuses on the sexual interactions between young Ayoreo women and the local Mennonite men and analyzes how their disparate ways of understanding sexual interactions affect the lives of these women and their families, entertaining questions of agency, violence, and the clash of culturally imposed conceptual schemes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Drawing Boundaries

2. Liminal Masculinities

3. Labor Exclusion

4. Commodifying Sex

5. Consuming Desire

6. Negotiating Inclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781477321478

1477321470

9781477321485

1477321489

OCLC:

1145898358