The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco

The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco
Author: John Renshaw
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803239388

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.

An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco

An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco
Author: Wilfried Barbrooke Grubb
Publisher: SEVERUS Verlag
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 386347127X

"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.

The Chaco War

The Chaco War
Author: Bruce W. Farcau
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1996-05-23
Genre: History
ISBN:

Nearly 100,000 men died during the course of the tragic three-year war between two of the world's poorest nations, Bolivia and Paraguay, in the 1930s. The Chaco War was fought over a worthless stretch of desert scrubland for the pride of political leaders and the ambition of a few military officers. While thousands of illiterate, barefoot, undernourished peasant soldiers fought and died with incredible bravery, their commanders and national leaders fussed and fumed over imagined slights and avoided the peace which was so easily within their reach. The Bolivian military, in particular, performed abysmally. Few wars have been as unnecessary or as costly as the Chaco War.

Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond
Author: Mario Blaser
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2010-09-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 082239118X

For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based “life projects” of the Yshiro, and the agendas of scholars and activists, Blaser argues for an understanding of the political mobilization of the Yshiro and other indigenous peoples as part of a struggle to make the global age hospitable to a “pluriverse” containing multiple worlds or realities. As he explains, most knowledge about the Yshiro produced by non-indigenous “experts” has been based on modern Cartesian dualisms separating subject and object, mind and body, and nature and culture. Such thinking differs profoundly from the relational ontology enacted by the Yshiro and other indigenous peoples. Attentive to people’s unique experiences of place and self, the Yshiro reject universal knowledge claims, unlike Western modernity, which assumes the existence of a universal reality and refuses the existence of other ontologies or realities. In Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond, Blaser engages in storytelling as a knowledge practice grounded in a relational ontology and attuned to the ongoing struggle for a pluriversal globality.

Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay

Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay
Author: Stephen Kidd
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1793634696

In Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay: Social and Kinship Relations within a Market Economy, Stephen Kidd examines the affective discourse and value systems of the indigenous Enxet people. Kidd’s analysis focuses on how the Enxet navigate the market economy in Paraguay and the tensions it exerts on their commitment to egalitarianism, generosity, and personal autonomy.

Actes

Actes
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 942
Release: 1917
Genre: America
ISBN: