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Author Gordillo, Gastón.

Title Landscapes of devils : tensions of place and memory in the Argentinean Chaco / Gastón R. Gordillo
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I The Making of the Bush; 1. Landmarks of Memory; 2. Heaven and Hell; 3. Places of Violence; 4. Searching for Our Fathers; 5. A Kind of Sanctuary; 6. ''In the Bush, You Can Do Anything''; II Bones in the Cane Fields; 7. The Promised Land; 8. ''It Seemed Like We Lived There''; 9. The Breath of the Devils; 10. ''We Returned Rich''; 11. ''Dancing, Dancing, Dancing''; 12. ''We Didn't Go on Strike''; III Foraging Until the End of the World; 13. ''We're Not Going to Die''; 14. The Production of Local Knowledge
15. ''With the Fish, We're Rich''16. Journeys to Strange Lands; 17. Locations of Contention and Hegemony; 18. The Other Side; Conclusions; Glossary; Notes; References; Index
Summary Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in Northern Argentina's Gran Chaco Region
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and index
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Subject Toba Indians -- Social life and customs
Toba Indians -- Psychology
Human geography -- Argentina -- Chaco
Geographical perception -- Argentina -- Chaco
Memory -- Social aspects -- Argentina -- Chaco
Cultural geography -- Argentina -- Chaco
Collective memory -- Argentina -- Chaco
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Collective memory.
Geographical perception.
Human geography.
Manners and customs.
Cultural geography.
Memory -- Social aspects.
Toba Indians -- Social life and customs.
Sozialgeografie
SUBJECT Chaco (Argentina) -- History
Chaco (Argentina) -- Social life and customs
Subject Argentina -- Chaco.
Toba (Südamerika, Volk)
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822386025
082238602X