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Book SynopsisIn Don’t Cry the Enlhet people give their own account of the Chaco War (1932–35) between Paraguay and Bolivia in voices never before heard outside their own society, translated from the Enlhet language. Their accounts, set alongside sensitive historical-anthropological analysis, allow unique access to these hitherto hidden perspectives.
Trade Review“The shock and trauma of the Chaco War persists still after more than eighty years. This brilliant collection of Native testimonies allows the Indigenous people caught between opposing armies to speak to us outsiders for the first time, offering perspectives that only an insider could record. The result is a wonderful ethnography and rare opportunity to learn about a critical period of Indigenous and Latin American history from Indigenous perspectives.” René Harder Horst, Appalachian State University and author of A History of Indigenous Latin America: Aymara to Zapatistas
“The book created an earthquake in the Paraguayan view of the Chaco War when it was first published in Paraguay in 2018. It is good that McGill-Queen’s University Press has provided a well-translated English version by Nicholas Regan. This important book substantially revises our understanding of the Indigenous history of the Chaco War and its aftermath.” Hispanic American Historical Review
