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Reimagining the Gran Chaco : Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America
Title
Reimagining the Gran Chaco : Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America / edited by Silvia Hirsch, Paola Canova, Mercedes Biocca.
ISBN
9781683402459
9781683402114
Publication
Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (360 pages).
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Summary
"This volume traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a vast and richly biodiverse ecoregion in South America, illuminating how the region's many indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Other formats
Online version: Reimagining the Gran Chaco Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2021]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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