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Landscapes of Devils

Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco
Verfasser: Gordillo, Gastón R.
978-0-8223-8602-5

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Titel:	Landscapes of Devils
Untertitel:	Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco
URL:	https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386025
URL Erlt Interna:	Verlag
URL Erlt Info:	URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Erläuterung :	Volltext
Von:	Gastón R. Gordillo
ISBN:	978-0-8223-8602-5
Erscheinungsort:	Durham
Verlag:	Duke University Press
Erscheinungsjahr:	[2004]
Erscheinungsjahr:	© 2004
DOI:	10.1515/9780822386025
Umfang:	1 online resource (326 pages)
Details:	60 b&w photos, 6 maps
Fußnote :	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
Abstract:	Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina's Gran Chaco region. In the early twentieth century, the Toba were defeated by the Argentinean army, incorporated into the seasonal labor force of distant sugar plantations, and proselytized by British Anglicans. Gastón R. Gordillo reveals how the Toba's memory of these processes is embedded in their experience of "the bush" that dominates the Chaco landscape.As Gordillo explains, the bush is the result of social, cultural, and political processes that intertwine this place with other geographies. Labor exploitation, state violence, encroachment by settlers, and the demands of Anglican missionaries all transformed this land. The Toba's lives have been torn between alienating work in sugar plantations and relative freedom in the bush, between moments of domination and autonomy, abundance and poverty, terror and healing. Part of this contradictory experience is culturally expressed in devils, evil spirits that acquire different features in different places. The devils are sources of death and disease in the plantations, but in the bush they are entities that connect with humans as providers of bush food and healing power. Enacted through memory, the experiences of the Toba have produced a tense and shifting geography. Combining extensive fieldwork conducted over a decade, historical research, and critical theory, Gordillo offers a nuanced analysis of the Toba's social memory and a powerful argument that geographic places are not only objective entities but also the subjective outcome of historical forces
Sprache:	eng
Fußnote :	In English
Weitere Schlagwörter :	Geographical perception; Argentina; Chaco; Human geography; Argentina; Chaco; Memory; Social aspects; Argentina; Chaco; Toba Indians; Psychology; Toba Indians; Social life and customs

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