List of Illustrations
Introduction. The Gran Chaco of South America in Transnational and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Silvia Hirsch, Paola Canova, and Mercedes Biocca
Chapter 1. The Rise and Fall of an Indigenous Homeland: The Itiyuro River Basin in Argentina
Federico Bossert
Chapter 2. Were the Chiriguano a Colonial Fabrication? Linguistic Arguments for Rethinking Guaraní and Chané Histories in the Chaco
Bret Gustafson
Chapter 3. Cosmology of Development: Humanitarian Narratives and Missionary Work in the Argentine Gran Chaco
César Ceriani Cernadas
Chapter 4. “They Only Know the Public Roads”: Enlhet Territoriality during the Colonization of Their Lands
Hannes Kalisch
Chapter 5. Death Ritual as Ethnopoeisis: A Farewell to an Angaité Shaman
Rodrigo Villagra Carron
Chapter 6. Between Resistance and Acquiescence: Experiences of Agrarian Transformation in Two Indigenous Communities in Chaco Province, Argentina
Mercedes Biocca
Chapter 7. Infrastructures of Settler Colonialism: Geographies of Violence, Indigenous Labor, and Marginal Resistance in Paraguay’s Chaco
Joel E. Correia
Chapter 8. Tense Territories: Negotiating Natural Gas in Weenhayek Society
Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Guido Cortez
Chapter 9. The Guaraní People’s Struggle for Indigenous Autonomy in Bolivia
Nancy Postero
Chapter 10. Ayoreo Women and Access to Health Care: Negotiating the Multicultural Reform of the State in Paraguay
Paola Canova
Chapter 11. Multiterritoriality and the Tapiete Trinational Experience in the Chaco
Silvia Hirsch
Afterword: The Contested Terrain of the Gran Chaco
Gastón Gordillo
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index
