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Book Synopsis Peoples of the Gran Chaco by : Elmer Miller
Download or read book Peoples of the Gran Chaco written by Elmer Miller and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gran Chaco region of South America constitutes a cultural area that is little known and largely misunderstood by the majority of people living outside its borders. From the earliest period of European contact, the societies under consideration here defended their territory and resisted first colonial and later national policies of domination and assimilation. The unique forms such resistance took constitute the subject of this book. Contrary to common assumptions, the hunter-gatherer values forged out of a unique environment have shown remarkable resilience throughout the centuries. It is the variety and relentless nature of cultural resistance that is documented in the various chapters presented here. The points of view expressed are those of scholars trained in a variety of academic settings (England, Sweden, U.S., Argentina) each with its unique perspective and frame of reference. Four of the seven writers are Argentine, three of whom have received training and experience in the U.S. Yet, it is the individual voices of indigenous people themselves that tell the story of contemporary life as experienced in the various societies concerned. They tell about the conditions that shape their lives and engender resistance to full assimilation into the white man's world. These are the voices of the future.
Book Synopsis Reimagining the Gran Chaco by : Silvia Hirsch
Download or read book Reimagining the Gran Chaco written by Silvia Hirsch and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco by : Wilfried Barbrooke Grubb
Download or read book An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco written by Wilfried Barbrooke Grubb and published by SEVERUS Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was to this strange land that I was sent by the South American Missionary Society in the year 1890." Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb (1865-1930) was twenty-three years old when he was appointed to Paraguay into the Chaco region "to penetrate into the interior and investigate fully the numbers, location, and attitude of the various tribes." In this volume Grubb gives "an account of the life and customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, with adventures and experiences met with during twenty years' pioneering and exploration amongst them." A vivid image of the Chaco region and its people is given by over sixty illustrations and photographs.
Book Synopsis An Unknown People in an Unknown Land by : Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb
Download or read book An Unknown People in an Unknown Land written by Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco by : John Graham Kerr
Download or read book A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco written by John Graham Kerr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Graham Kerr (1869-1957) was a Scottish zoologist and politician, well known for his work in relation to the embryology of lungfishes. Originally published in 1950, this book provides an account of Kerr's travels and discoveries within the Gran Chaco region of South America. The text is divided into two main parts: the first discusses the Pilcomayo Expedition of 1889-91, providing detailed information on the 'Natokoi or Toba Indians', together with their natural environment; the second gives an account of the 1896-7 Lepidosiren Expedition, mainly focusing on Kerr's observations of the South American lungfish. Numerous illustrative figures are also incorporated, including photographs, drawings and maps. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Gran Chaco region, anthropology, zoology and the history of science.
Book Synopsis Myths of the Toba and Pilagá Indians of the Gran Chaco by : Alfred Métraux
Download or read book Myths of the Toba and Pilagá Indians of the Gran Chaco written by Alfred Métraux and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Unknown People in an Unknown Land by : Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb
Download or read book An Unknown People in an Unknown Land written by Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Unknown People in an Unknown Land by : Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb
Download or read book An Unknown People in an Unknown Land written by Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ethnography of the Gran Chaco. Being the Results of a Voyage of Exploration in the River Bermejo in 1863 by : Porter Cornelius BLISS
Download or read book The Ethnography of the Gran Chaco. Being the Results of a Voyage of Exploration in the River Bermejo in 1863 written by Porter Cornelius BLISS and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Myths and Tales of the Matako Indians (the Gran Chaco, Argentina) by : Alfred Métraux
Download or read book Myths and Tales of the Matako Indians (the Gran Chaco, Argentina) written by Alfred Métraux and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chaco Mission Frontier by : James Schofield Saeger
Download or read book The Chaco Mission Frontier written by James Schofield Saeger and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish missions in the New World usually pacified sedentary peoples accustomed to the agricultural mode of mission life, prompting many scholars to generalize about mission history. James Saeger now reconsiders the effectiveness of the missions by examining how Guaycuruan peoples of South America's Gran Chaco adapted to them during the eighteenth century. Because the Guaycuruans were hunter-gatherers less suited to an agricultural lifestyle, their attitudes and behaviors can provide new insight about the impact of missions on native peoples. Responding to recent syntheses of the mission system, Saeger proposes that missions in the Gran Chaco did not fit the usual pattern. Through research in colonial documents, he reveals the Guaycuruan perspective on the missions, thereby presenting an alternative view of Guaycuruan history and the development of the mission system. He investigates Guaycuruan social, economic, political, and religious life before the missions and analyzes subsequent changes; he then traces Guaycuruan history into the modern era and offers an assessment of what Catholic missions meant to these peoples. Saeger's research into Spanish documents is unique for its elicitation of the Indian point of view. He not only reconstructs Guaycuruan life independent of Spanish contact but also shows how these Indians negotiated the conditions under which they would adapt to the mission way of life, thereby retaining much of their independence. By showing that the Guaycuruans were not as restricted in missions as has been assumed, Saeger demonstrates that there is a distinct difference between the establishment of missions and conquest. The Chaco Mission Frontier helps redefine mission studies by correcting overgeneralization about their role in Latin America.
Book Synopsis a naturalist in gran chaco by : Sir John Graham Kerr
Download or read book a naturalist in gran chaco written by Sir John Graham Kerr and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Landscapes of Devils by : Gastón R. Gordillo
Download or read book Landscapes of Devils written by Gastón R. Gordillo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina’s Gran Chaco region. In the early twentieth century, the Toba were defeated by the Argentinean army, incorporated into the seasonal labor force of distant sugar plantations, and proselytized by British Anglicans. Gastón R. Gordillo reveals how the Toba’s memory of these processes is embedded in their experience of “the bush” that dominates the Chaco landscape. As Gordillo explains, the bush is the result of social, cultural, and political processes that intertwine this place with other geographies. Labor exploitation, state violence, encroachment by settlers, and the demands of Anglican missionaries all transformed this land. The Toba’s lives have been torn between alienating work in sugar plantations and relative freedom in the bush, between moments of domination and autonomy, abundance and poverty, terror and healing. Part of this contradictory experience is culturally expressed in devils, evil spirits that acquire different features in different places. The devils are sources of death and disease in the plantations, but in the bush they are entities that connect with humans as providers of bush food and healing power. Enacted through memory, the experiences of the Toba have produced a tense and shifting geography. Combining extensive fieldwork conducted over a decade, historical research, and critical theory, Gordillo offers a nuanced analysis of the Toba’s social memory and a powerful argument that geographic places are not only objective entities but also the subjective outcome of historical forces.
Book Synopsis Population Limitations of the Gran Chaco by : Wilma M. Angelbeck
Download or read book Population Limitations of the Gran Chaco written by Wilma M. Angelbeck and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gran Chaco Calling by : Meredith Herbert Gibson
Download or read book Gran Chaco Calling written by Meredith Herbert Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Frontier Intimacies by : Paola Canova
Download or read book Frontier Intimacies written by Paola Canova and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the 1960s, the Ayoreo people of Paraguay's Chaco region had remained uncontacted by the world. But as development encroached on their territory, the Ayoreo began to experience rapid cultural change. Paola Canova looks at one aspect of this change in Frontier Intimacies: the sexual practices of Ayoreo women, specifically the curajodie, or single women who exchange sex for money or material goods with non-Ayoreo men, often Mennonite settlers. Weaving personal anecdotes into her extensive research, Canova shows how the advancement of economic and missionary frontiers has reconfigured gender roles, sexual ethics, and notions of desire in the region. Ayoreo women, she shows, have reappropriated their sexual practices, approaching intimate liaisons on their own terms and seeing the involvement of money not as morally problematic but as constitutive of sexual encounters. By using their sexuality to construct an intimate frontier operating according to their own logics, Canova reveals, Ayoreo women expose the fractured workings of frontier capitalism in spaces of rapid transformation. Inviting broader examination of the ways in which contemporary frontier economies are constructed and experienced, Frontier Intimacies brings a captivating new perspective to the economic development of the Chaco region.
Book Synopsis Entitled to Land by : Petrus W. Stunnenberg
Download or read book Entitled to Land written by Petrus W. Stunnenberg and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
