Gordillo / Gaston R. Gordillo Landscapes of Devils

Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8602-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten

Examines the inscription of historical forces in the senses of place of the Tobas, an indigenous people of the Argentinean Chaco region whose recent history has been torn between exploitation in sugar plantations and relative autonomy in the bush.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordillo, Gastón R.

Gaston R. Gordillo, Gordillo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1

I. The Making of the Bush

1. Landmarks of Memory 15

2. Heaven and Hell 40

3. Places of Violence 53

4. Searching for Our Fathers 70

5. A Kind of Sanctuary 78

6. “In the Bush, You Can Do Anything” 88

II. Bones in the Cane Fields

7. The Promised Land 103

8. “It Seemed Like We Lived There” 109

9. The Breath of the Devils 123

10. “We Returned Rich” 139

11. “Dancing, Dancing, Dancing” 149

12. “We Didn’t Go on Strike” 158

13. “We’re Not Going to Die” 169

14. The Production of Local Knowledge 183

15. “With the Fish, We’re Rich” 198

16. Journeys to Strange Lands 209

17. Locations of Contentions and Hegemony 223

18. The Other Side 239

Conclusions 253

Glossary 261

Notes 265

References 281

Index 297

Über Autor(innen)

Gastón R. Gordillo is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is coauthor of El río y la frontera: movilizaciones aborígenes, obras públicas y mercosur en el Pilcomayo.