Reimagining the Gran Chaco
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Reimagining the Gran Chaco

Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America

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Reimagining the Gran Chaco

Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America

About this book

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.  



Contributors: Nancy Postero | César Ceriani Cernadas | Hannes Kalisch | Rodrigo Villagra | Federico Bossert | Paola Canova | Joel Correia | Bret Gustafson | Mercedes Biocca | Silvia Hirsch | Denise Bebbington | Gastón Gordillo | Guido Cortez

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Introduction: The Gran Chaco of South America in Transnational and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
  8. 1. The Rise and Fall of an Indigenous Homeland: The Itiyuro River Basin in Argentina
  9. 2. Were the Chiriguano a Colonial Fabrication? Linguistic Arguments for Rethinking Guaraní and Chané Histories in the Chaco
  10. 3. Cosmology of Development: Humanitarian Narratives and Missionary Work in the Argentine Gran Chaco
  11. 4. “They Only Know the Public Roads”: Enlhet Territoriality during the Colonization of Their Lands
  12. 5. Death Ritual as Ethnopoeisis: A Farewell to an Angaité Shaman
  13. 6. Between Resistance and Acquiescence: Experiences of Agrarian Transformation in Two Indigenous Communities in Chaco Province, Argentina
  14. 7. Infrastructures of Settler Colonialism: Geographies of Violence, Indigenous Labor, and Marginal Resistance in Paraguay’s Chaco
  15. 8. Tense Territories: Negotiating Natural Gas in Weenhayek Society
  16. 9. The Guaraní People’s Struggle for Indigenous Autonomy in Bolivia
  17. 10. Ayoreo Women and Access to Health Care: Negotiating the Multicultural Reform of the State in Paraguay
  18. 11. Multiterritoriality and the Tapiete Trinational Experience in the Chaco
  19. Afterword: The Contested Terrain of the Gran Chaco
  20. Works Cited
  21. List of Contributors
  22. Index