Reimagining the Gran Chaco : identities, politics, and the environment in South America / edited by Silvia Hirsch, Paola Canova, and Mercedes Biocca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hirsch, Silvia María, editor.

Canova, Paola, editor.

Biocca, Mercedes, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Gran Chaco--Ethnic identity.

Indians of South America.

Indians of South America--Gran Chaco--Politics and government.

Indians of South America--Gran Chaco--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Politics and government.

Ethnicity.

Gran Chaco--Environmental conditions.

Gran Chaco.

Gran Chaco--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 349 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

The Gran Chaco of South America: Introducing a Peripheral region in Transnational and Multidisciplinary Perspective / Silvia Hirsch, Paola Canova, and Mercedes Biocca

The Rise and Fall of an Indigenous Homeland: the River Itiyuro Basin, 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, 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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 22, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Reimagining the Gran Chaco

ISBN:

9781683403357

1683403355

9781683402459

1683402456

Publisher Number:

40030736563

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.