Reimagining the Gran Chaco - Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America

This volume traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a vast and richly biodiverse ecoregion in South America, illuminating how the region's many indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms.

Summary

Traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a biodiverse region at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Representing a range of contemporary anthropological scholarship, this book illuminates how the region’s indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mercedes Biocca (Editor), Paola Canova (Editor), Silvia Hirsch (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Florida Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781683402114
• ISBN: 978-1-68340-211-4
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 699 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore