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Landscapes of Devils – Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco

Autor Gastón R. Gordillo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 dec 2004
Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina’s Gran Chaco region. In the early twentieth century, the Toba were defeated by the Argentinian army, incorporated into the seasonal labour force of distant sugar plantations, and missionized by British Anglicans. Gastón R. Gordillo reveals how the Toba’s sense of themselves as aboriginal people with links to a particular homeland—however changing and fragile—anchors a distinctive collective identity. Focusing on the connections between memory and place, he examines the Toba’s complex understanding of the bush which covers much of the Gran Chaco. Gordillo argues that places are not stable but are instead ongoing historical processes constructed in relation to other places. In Landscapes of Devils, he analyzes the experiences and places that have coalesced to produce the bush.A twenty-to-forty foot high mantle of hardwoods, cacti, and shrubs, the bush is charged with meaning for the Toba. The bush is not indigenous to the environment; it is the historical product of agricultural changes implemented by the Argentinian settlers and British missionaries in the early twentieth-century. Thus, for the Toba, the bush is intrinsically tied to their incorporation within the Argentinian nation-sate and their demise as a politically and militarily autonomous group. Yet it has also represented a safe refuge from the exploitative labour conditions on sugar plantations. Combining extensive fieldwork conducted over a decade, historical research, and critical theory, Gordillo shows how they understand the bush in relation to forces including state violence, shamanism, disease, land encroachment by settlers, Anglican missionization, commodity fetishism, and seasonal labour.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822333913
ISBN-10: 0822333910
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 60 b&w photographs, 6 maps
Dimensiuni: 148 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Recenzii

“Gastón R. Gordillo has written a superb book about the complex, contradictory world of the Toba of the Argentinean Chaco. Especially memorable is the manner in which he demonstrates the contextual, shifting nature of the meaning of the various places and spaces, activities and imaginings, figures and fetishes that have made up the Toba world ever since the time of the ‘ancient ones;’ this to unravel the historical experiences, and the memories, that configure everyday practices in a world beset by devils—and by some of the less enviable effects of an especially avaricious capitalist economy on its contract laborers. While it is situated in a remote part of South America, this is a work of global importance in both its historical and its theoretical reach.”—John Comaroff, University of Chicago

Notă biografică

Gaston R. Gordillo is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is coauthor of "El rio y la frontera: movilizaciones aborigenes, obras publicas y ""mercosur"" en el Pilcomayo."

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"Gaston R. Gordillo has written a superb book about the complex, contradictory world of the Toba of the Argentinean Chaco. Especially memorable is the manner in which he demonstrates the contextual, shifting nature of the meaning of the various places and spaces, activities and imaginings, figures and fetishes that have made up the Toba world ever since the time of the 'ancient ones.' He unravels the historical experiences and the memories that configure everyday practices in a world beset by devils--and by some of the less enviable effects of an especially avaricious capitalist economy on its contract laborers. While it is situated in a remote part of South America, this is a work of global importance in both its historical and its theoretical reach."--John Comaroff, University of Chicago

Cuprins

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

Descriere

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.