Reimagining the Gran Chaco: identities, politics, and the environment in South America

Abstract

The Gran Chaco of South America: Introducing a Peripheral region in Transnational and Multidisciplinary Perspective / Silvia Hirsch, Paola Canova, and Mercedes Biocca -- The Rise and Fall of an Indigenous Homeland: the River Itiyuro Basin, Argentina / Federico Bossert -- Was the Chiriguano a Colonial Fabrication? Linguistic Arguments for Rethinking Guaraní and Chané Histories in the Chaco / Bret Gustafson -- Cosmology of Development: Humanitarian Narratives and Missionary Work in the Argentine Gran Chaco / César Ceriani Cernadas -- "They only know the public roads" Enlhet Territoriality during the Colonization of their Lands / Hannes Kalisch -- Death Ritual as Ethnopoeisis: a Farewell to an Angaité shaman / Rodrigo Villagra Carron -- Between Resistance and Acquiescence: Experiences of Agrarian Transformation in two Indigenous Communities in Chaco, Argentina / Mercedes Biocca -- Infrastructures of settler colonialism: Geographies of violence, Indigenous labor, and marginal resistance in Paraguay's Chaco / Joel E. Correia -- Tense Territories: Negotiating Natural Gas in Weenhayek Society / Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Guido Cortez -- The Guaraní People's Struggle for Indigenous Autonomy in Bolivia / Nancy Postero -- Ayoreo Women and Access to Healthcare: Negotiating the Multicultural Reform of the State in Paraguay / Paola Canova -- Multiterritoriality and the Tapiete Trinational Experience in the Chaco / Silvia Hirsch -- Afterword: The Contested Terrain of the Gran Chaco / Gastón Gordillo