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Helps you chronicle of the journey of the small group of Ayoreo people, the terrifying new world they now face, and the precarious lives they are piecing together against the backdrop of soul - collecting missionaries, humanitarian NGOs, late liberal economic policies, and the highest deforestation rate in the world.

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"This is an exceptional book whose compelling narrative fully immerses the reader in the social and spatial geography of the northern Gran Chaco. The book's greatest strength is Bessire's careful conceptual and ethnographic decomposition of the terms that have long been used to dehumanize the Ayoreo people in popular and scholarly imaginings. Original and unsettling, this ethnography shows that the anthropological deconstructions of conventional notions of 'culture' and 'indigeneity' haven't gone too far-in fact, they haven't gone far enough." (Gaston Gordillo, author of Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction)"

Behold the Black Caiman A Chronicle of Ayoreo

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    A Paperback / softback by Lucas Bessire

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/10/2014
      ISBN13: 9780226175577, 978-0226175577
      ISBN10: 022617557X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Helps you chronicle of the journey of the small group of Ayoreo people, the terrifying new world they now face, and the precarious lives they are piecing together against the backdrop of soul - collecting missionaries, humanitarian NGOs, late liberal economic policies, and the highest deforestation rate in the world.

      Trade Review
      "This is an exceptional book whose compelling narrative fully immerses the reader in the social and spatial geography of the northern Gran Chaco. The book's greatest strength is Bessire's careful conceptual and ethnographic decomposition of the terms that have long been used to dehumanize the Ayoreo people in popular and scholarly imaginings. Original and unsettling, this ethnography shows that the anthropological deconstructions of conventional notions of 'culture' and 'indigeneity' haven't gone too far-in fact, they haven't gone far enough." (Gaston Gordillo, author of Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction)"

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