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Book Reimagining the Gran Chaco

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 A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco

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 Eight Months on the Gran Chaco of the Argentine Republic

Download or read book Eight Months on the Gran Chaco of the Argentine Republic written by Juan Pelleschi and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peoples of the Gran Chaco

Download or read book Peoples of the Gran Chaco written by Elmer Miller and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in any language to provide an overview of Gran Chaco societies in Argentina in both historical and contemporary perspectives. It depicts a variety of strategies and actions utilized to regenerate traditional values and actions in the face of enormous pressures for assimilation.

Book Gran Chaco Calling

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 The Chaco Mission Frontier

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  • Author : James Schofield Saeger
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2016-03
  • ISBN : 0816533598
  • Pages : 286 pages

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 Gran Chaco Calling

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  • Author : Sir Meredith Herbert Gibson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1934
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Gran Chaco Calling written by Sir Meredith Herbert Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco

Download or read book A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco written by and published by . This book was released on 1968* with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book a naturalist in gran chaco

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  • Author : Sir John Graham Kerr
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

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 Landscapes of Devils

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  • Author : Gastón Gordillo
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2004-12-06
  • ISBN : 9780822333913
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Landscapes of Devils written by Gastón Gordillo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the inscription of historical forces in the senses of place of the Tobas, an indigenous people of the Argentinean Chaco region whose recent history has been torn between exploitation in sugar plantations and relative autonomy in the bush.

Book Disrupting the Patr  n

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  • Author : Joel E. Correia
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-04-04
  • ISBN : 0520393112
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Disrupting the Patr n written by Joel E. Correia and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Paraguay’s Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world’s fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure, with grave impacts on Indigenous well‑being. Disrupting the Patrón traces Enxet and Sanapaná struggles to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peons—a decades-long resistance that led to the Inter‑American Court of Human Rights and back to the frontlines of Paraguay’s ranching frontier. The Indigenous communities at the heart of this story employ a dialectics of disruption by working with and against the law to unsettle enduring racial geographies and rebuild territorial relations, albeit with uncertain outcomes. Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapaná peoples enact environmental justice otherwise: moving beyond juridical solutions to harm by maintaining collective lifeways and resistance amid radical social-ecological change. Correia’s ethnography advances debates about environmental racism, ethics of engaged research, and Indigenous resurgence on Latin America’s settler frontiers.

Book A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco

Download or read book A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco written by John Graham Kerr (F.R.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gran Chaco Calling  A Chronicle of Sport and Travel in Paraguay and the Chaco  With Photographs and Map

Download or read book Gran Chaco Calling A Chronicle of Sport and Travel in Paraguay and the Chaco With Photographs and Map written by Sir Christopher Herbert (formerly Gibson.) and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Don t Cry

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  • Author : Hannes Kalisch
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2022-04-07
  • ISBN : 0228011736
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Don t Cry written by Hannes Kalisch and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlhet, an Indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, remained virtually untouched by colonialism until the 1920s. This changed with the arrival of Mennonites, who began settling in the centre of Enlhet territory in 1927; the Chaco War soon after (1932–35); the deadliest conflict in the western hemisphere after the American Civil War; and a terrible smallpox epidemic at the same time. In Don’t Cry the Enlhet give their own account of this period, focusing on their experiences of the war between Paraguay and Bolivia, in voices never before heard outside their own society. Their accounts, translated from the Enlhet language and set alongside sensitive historical-anthropological analysis, allow unprecedented access to these hitherto hidden perspectives. Enlhet witnesses to those times describe the processes of colonization to which they were subjected while, at the same time, insisting on their own vision of the world. This vision challenges the views of colonial society, symbolizing the search for a relationship that assumes a shared history, addresses the gulf between peoples, and embraces the potential of each. These oral histories bear witness to the role of Indigenous voices in overcoming the colonial mindset deeply rooted within Western societies, which lacks the conceptual framework to meet Indigenous societies on equal terms. A unique example of history from an Indigenous perspective, this book reflects a crucial moment for a people who preserved their language despite adverse circumstances and whose origins still inform their daily life. Don’t Cry demonstrates the importance of native voices for both Indigenous and colonial societies.

Book A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco  7

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  • Author : Sir John Graham Kerr
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781014012333
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco 7 written by Sir John Graham Kerr and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.