Reimagining the Gran Chaco - 9781683402862

Reimagining the Gran ChacoIdentities, Politics, and the Environment in South America\nAuthor(s): Silvia Hirsch, Paola Canova, Mercedes Biocca\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Florida, United States\nImprint: University Press of Florida\nISBN-13: 9781683402862, 978-1683402862\nSynopsis\nThis 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 regions many indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms.\n\nThe 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 and NGOs, and private businesses and how local actors ar.