Reimagining the Gran Chaco

By Silvia Hirsch (editor), Paola Canova (editor), Mercedes Biocca (editor)

Book cover of Reimagining the Gran Chaco: Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America

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…

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1 author picked Reimagining the Gran Chaco as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This wonderful book collects ethnographies about Indigenous peoples in the Gran Chaco. This beautiful region, where I grew up and currently teach about, links Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil and is home to over twenty-five Indigenous nations. 

The Gran Chaco is ecologically important because it is the second-largest biome in Latin America and the site of multiple extractive industries. Ranchers and soy planters are currently deforesting the region at the highest rate in the world and displacing the Indigenous peoples, forcing them into poverty, hunger, and prostitution.  

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