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 at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Representing a wide range of contemporary anthropological scholarship that has not been availab...

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Other Authors: Hirsch, Silvia María (Editor), Canova, Paola (Editor), Biocca, Mercedes (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2021]
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"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." --
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 349 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781683403357
1683403355
9781683402459
1683402456
9781683402985
1683402987

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