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.

Series:

Florida scholarship online.

Florida scholarship online

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.

Gran Chaco--Environmental conditions.

Gran Chaco.

Gran Chaco--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021]

Summary:

This volume traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a biodiverse region at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Representing a range of contemporary anthropological scholarship, this book illuminates how the region's indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms.

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 Chane Histories in the Chaco / Bret Gustafson

Cosmology of Development: Humanitarian Narratives and Missionary Work in the Argentine Gran Chaco / Cesar 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 Angaite 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.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2022).

Also issued in print: 2021.

ISBN:

1-68340-298-7

1-68340-245-6

1-68340-335-5

OCLC:

1245251228