This volume traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a vast and richly biodiverse ecoregion at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Representing a wide range of contemporary anthropological scholarship that has not been available in English until now, Reimagining the Gran Chaco illuminates how the region’s many Indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms.
The essays in this volume explore how the region has become a complex arena of political, cultural, and economic contestation between actors that include the state, environmental groups and NGOs, and private businesses and how local actors are reconfiguring their subjectivities and political agency in response. With its multinational perspective, and its examination of major themes including missionization, millenarian movements, the Chaco war, industrial enclaves, extractivism, political mobilization, and the struggle for rights, this volume brings greater visibility to an underrepresented, complex region.
Author(s): Silvia Hirsch, Paola Canova, Mercedes Biocca
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 359
City: Gainesville
Cover
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Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Gran Chaco of South America in Transnational and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
1. The Rise and Fall of an Indigenous Homeland: The Itiyuro River Basin in Argentina
2. Were the Chiriguano a Colonial Fabrication? Linguistic Arguments for Rethinking Guaraní and Chané Histories in the Chaco
3. Cosmology of Development: Humanitarian Narratives and Missionary Work in the Argentine Gran Chaco
4. “They Only Know the Public Roads”: Enlhet Territoriality during the Colonization of Their Lands
5. Death Ritual as Ethnopoeisis: A Farewell to an Angaité Shaman
6. Between Resistance and Acquiescence: Experiences of Agrarian Transformation in Two Indigenous Communities in Chaco Province, Argentina
7. Infrastructures of Settler Colonialism: Geographies of Violence, Indigenous Labor, and Marginal Resistance in Paraguay’s Chaco
8. Tense Territories: Negotiating Natural Gas in Weenhayek Society
9. The Guaraní People’s Struggle for Indigenous Autonomy in Bolivia
10. Ayoreo Women and Access to Health Care: Negotiating the Multicultural Reform of the State in Paraguay
11. Multiterritoriality and the Tapiete Trinational Experience in the Chaco
Afterword: The Contested Terrain of the Gran Chaco
Works Cited
List of Contributors
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