Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Mataco of the Gran Chaco PDF full book. Access full book title The Mataco of the Gran Chaco by Jan-Åke Alvarsson. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Jan-Åke Alvarsson Publisher: Academiae Ubsaliensis ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 342
Book Description
"In-depth ethnographic study of the Mataco of Bolivia focuses on socioeconomic organization, changes, and continuities. Describes impact of historical changes on Mataco cultural practices, and discusses kinship and social organization as forms of identity maintenance. Contributes to the study of economic strategies of lowland groups"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Author: Jan-Åke Alvarsson Publisher: Academiae Ubsaliensis ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 342
Book Description
"In-depth ethnographic study of the Mataco of Bolivia focuses on socioeconomic organization, changes, and continuities. Describes impact of historical changes on Mataco cultural practices, and discusses kinship and social organization as forms of identity maintenance. Contributes to the study of economic strategies of lowland groups"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Author: Silvia Hirsch Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 1683403355 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
This volume traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a vast and richly biodiverse ecoregion at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Representing a wide range of contemporary anthropological scholarship that has not been available in English until now, Reimagining the Gran Chaco illuminates how the region’s many Indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms. The essays in this volume explore how the region has become a complex arena of political, cultural, and economic contestation between actors that include the state, environmental groups and NGOs, and private businesses and how local actors are reconfiguring their subjectivities and political agency in response. With its multinational perspective, and its examination of major themes including missionization, millenarian movements, the Chaco war, industrial enclaves, extractivism, political mobilization, and the struggle for rights, this volume brings greater visibility to an underrepresented, complex region. Contributors: Nancy Postero | César Ceriani Cernadas | Hannes Kalisch | Rodrigo Villagra | Federico Bossert | Paola Canova | Joel Correia | Bret Gustafson | Mercedes Biocca | Silvia Hirsch | Denise Bebbington | Gastón Gordillo | Guido Cortez
Author: Elmer Miller Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
The Gran Chaco region of South America constitutes a cultural area that is little known and largely misunderstood by the majority of people living outside its borders. From the earliest period of European contact, the societies under consideration here defended their territory and resisted first colonial and later national policies of domination and assimilation. The unique forms such resistance took constitute the subject of this book. Contrary to common assumptions, the hunter-gatherer values forged out of a unique environment have shown remarkable resilience throughout the centuries. It is the variety and relentless nature of cultural resistance that is documented in the various chapters presented here. The points of view expressed are those of scholars trained in a variety of academic settings (England, Sweden, U.S., Argentina) each with its unique perspective and frame of reference. Four of the seven writers are Argentine, three of whom have received training and experience in the U.S. Yet, it is the individual voices of indigenous people themselves that tell the story of contemporary life as experienced in the various societies concerned. They tell about the conditions that shape their lives and engender resistance to full assimilation into the white man's world. These are the voices of the future.
Author: John Graham Kerr Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107495059 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 275
Book Description
Sir John Graham Kerr (1869-1957) was a Scottish zoologist and politician, well known for his work in relation to the embryology of lungfishes. Originally published in 1950, this book provides an account of Kerr's travels and discoveries within the Gran Chaco region of South America. The text is divided into two main parts: the first discusses the Pilcomayo Expedition of 1889-91, providing detailed information on the 'Natokoi or Toba Indians', together with their natural environment; the second gives an account of the 1896-7 Lepidosiren Expedition, mainly focusing on Kerr's observations of the South American lungfish. Numerous illustrative figures are also incorporated, including photographs, drawings and maps. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Gran Chaco region, anthropology, zoology and the history of science.
Author: John Renshaw Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803239388 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
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.
Author: Henrik Bogdan Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350413291 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the study of religions in Sweden, from the early twentieth century to the present and shows how the intersection of national and social forces shape the study of religion in specific countries and contexts. It traces the establishment of the study of religions as an integrated part of Higher Education in Sweden and it critically examines the development of the most significant disciplines, themes and questions that form Religious Studies in Sweden. Demonstrating the interconnection between nationality and the formation of the academic study of religion, the book explores how Sweden is often described as the most secularised country in the world, yet the study of religions in Sweden has a long, rich, and diverse history. The book emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the study of religions, and bring together the voices of 30 scholars.
Author: Jan-Åke Alvarsson
Author: Jan-Åke Alvarsson
Author: Silvia Hirsch
Author: Rafael Karsten
Author: Elmer Miller
Author: John Graham Kerr
Author: Sir John Graham Kerr
Author: John Renshaw
Author: 
Author: Johannes Wilbert
Author: Henrik Bogdan