Author: H. J. L. Norman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Tribes of the Argentine and Paraguayan Chaco
Author: H. J. L. Norman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Paraguayan Chaco
Author: Cecilio Báez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bolivia
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bolivia
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Livingstone of South America
Author: Richard James Hunt
Publisher: London : Seeley Service
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher: London : Seeley Service
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Peoples of the Gran Chaco
Author: Elmer Miller
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
Indian Tribes of the Argentine and Bolivian Chaco
Author: Rafael Karsten
Publisher:
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Category : Choroti Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book contains ethnological material collected by the author during his travels in Argentine and Bolivian Gran Chaco in 1911-1913.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Choroti Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book contains ethnological material collected by the author during his travels in Argentine and Bolivian Gran Chaco in 1911-1913.
The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco
Author: John Renshaw
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803239388
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Based on extensive fieldwork and ongoing contact with local indigenous organizations in Paraguay, John Renshaw presents an overview of contemporary Indian life in the Paraguayan Chaco.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803239388
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Based on extensive fieldwork and ongoing contact with local indigenous organizations in Paraguay, John Renshaw presents an overview of contemporary Indian life in the Paraguayan Chaco.
Among the Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco
Author: Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb
Publisher:
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Category : Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Landscapes of Devils
Author: Gastón R. Gordillo
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082238602X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082238602X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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.
La Plata, the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay
Author: Thomas Jefferson Page
Publisher:
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Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Entitled to Land
Author: Petrus W. Stunnenberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gran Chaco
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gran Chaco
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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