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This book explores omissions, or silences, in previous investigations of agrarian transformations by foregrounding indigenous experiences of capitalist development. Providing a rich and detailed ethnographic study, Mercedes Biocca shows how capitalist processes are perceived, experienced, and either confronted or accepted depending on the different ways in which dispossession, resistance and negotiation have become embedded in the collective local memory. Challenging accounts that efface the agency of subalterns in shaping rural dynamics, and ignore the diversity of perspectives within indigenous groups, Biocca untangles the connections between global, national and local spatial scales in her analysis of accumulation by dispossession. Using two case studies, the Qom People in Pampa del Indio and the Moqoit people in Las Tolderías, she presents the main transformations that have taken place in the Argentine agricultural sector during the hegemony of post-neoliberalism while centring the perceptions and roles of subalterns within these transformations.

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