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.
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.
An Ethno-geographical Analysis of the Material Culture of Two Indian Tribes in the Gran Chaco
Author: Erland Nordenskiöld
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ashluslay Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ashluslay Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
An Unknown People in an Unknown Land
Author: Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco
Author: Wilfried Barbrooke Grubb
Publisher: SEVERUS Verlag
ISBN: 386347127X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: SEVERUS Verlag
ISBN: 386347127X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
"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.
An Ethno-geographical Analysis of the Material Culture of Two Indian Tribes in the Gran Chaco
Author: Erland Nordenskiöld
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Reimagining the Gran Chaco
Author: Silvia Hirsch
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683403355
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683403355
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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
An Unknown People in an Unknown Land
Author: Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia)
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia)
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Myths of the Toba and Pilagá Indians of the Gran Chaco
Author: Alfred Métraux
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Indian Tribes of the Argentine and Bolivian Chaco
Author: Rafael Karsten
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.
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.
An Unknown People in an Unknown Land
Author: Wilfred Barbrooke Grubb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia)
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaco Boreal (Paraguay and Bolivia)
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description