Reimagining the Gran Chaco : identities, politics, and the environment in South America /
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.
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Gainesville :
University of Florida Press,
[2021]
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Table of 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.