- Anthropology, Anthropology of Kinship, Ethnohistory, Rubber boom (caucho), Bolivia, Chaco, and 71 moreInterethnic Relations, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Mojos, Amazonia, Bolivian studies, Ethnography, Kinship (Anthropology), Argentina, Ethnic Studies, Gran Chaco, Fieldwork in Anthropology, Amazonian Languages, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Etnografía, Indigenous Studies, History of Christianity, Amerindian Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Antropología, Amerindian Cosmologies, Race and Ethnicity, Colonial Latin American History, Historical Anthropology, Etnohistoria, Personhood, Social Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, History of Missions, Borders and Frontiers, Frontier Studies, Political Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Latin American History, Latin American Studies, Visual Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean History, Antropología Social, Rubber, Representation of Others, Social Representations, Etnologia, Anthropology of Capitalism, Social Sciences, Latin America, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Politics, Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnolinguistics, Self Representation, Latin American Colonial Literature, Relaciones interétnicas, Colonialism, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Interethnic Interaction, Gender, South American Indians, Gran Chaco Sudamericano, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Bolivian Lowlands, Ethnicity, Indigenous Knowledge, Pueblos indígenas, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnology, Extractive industries, Travel Writing, Antropología histórica, and Antropología culturaledit
- Ethnography and Ethnohistory of Chaco and Bolivian Amazonia Marie Curie Research Fellow (Università Ca' Foscari Venez... moreEthnography and Ethnohistory of Chaco and Bolivian Amazonia
Marie Curie Research Fellow (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Scientific Editorial Board of Hau - Journal of Ethographic Theory, and Campos - Revista de Antropología Social
Anthropologie des basses terres sudaméricaines (Bérose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l’anthropologie)
Centro Investigaciones en Investigaciones Científicas e Históricas (Bolivia)
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Desde 1880 a 1920, la explotación del caucho transforma dramáticamente la cuenca amazónica. Las fuentes del período nos presentan un paisaje selvático y una industria hiper-masculinizados, y poco sabemos acerca de las mujeres criollas,... more
Desde 1880 a 1920, la explotación del caucho transforma dramáticamente la cuenca amazónica. Las fuentes del período nos presentan un paisaje selvático y una industria hiper-masculinizados, y poco sabemos acerca de las mujeres criollas, europeas o indígenas involucradas con la maquinaria extractiva, olvidadas o a lo sumo caracterizadas como un actor social menor, transparente, anónimo, casi invisible. Una de las excepciones más notables es el testimonio epistolar de la británica Elisabeth ‘Lizzie’ Hessel, que relata en primera persona la experiencia femenina en una barraca cauchera de Bolivia, y constituye por tanto un documento excepcional sobre las luces y las sombras del auge extractivo.
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, and 15 moreWomen's Studies, Social Sciences, Literature, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Bolivian studies, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Culture, Amazonia, Bolivia, Etnohistoria, South American Indians, Antropología, Amazonian Ethnology, and Anthropology of Lowland South America
Dos suizos, dos libros, una única obsesión: la explotación del “oro negro” de la selva amazónica, en la época del auge cauchero en el Oriente de Bolivia. Con apenas unos meses de diferencia, Franz Ritz y Ernst Leutenegger trabajaron en la... more
Dos suizos, dos libros, una única obsesión: la explotación del “oro negro” de la selva amazónica, en la época del auge cauchero en el Oriente de Bolivia. Con apenas unos meses de diferencia, Franz Ritz y Ernst Leutenegger trabajaron en la misma barraca gomera durante la primera década del siglo XX, y ambos publicaron luego sus recuerdos en su país natal. Son estos relatos que, traducidos por primera vez al español, nos propone descubrir aquí Lorena Córdoba. La mirada más entusiasta de Ritz y la visión más melancólica de Leutenegger evocan ambas tópicos de la fiebre cauchera en la selva boliviana: la dura vida en las barracas; la ley del más fuerte en un mundo donde el Estado está ausente; los enganches tramposos, las deudas hereditarias, la explotación de los indígenas. Sin embargo, estos relatos permiten ir más allá de los clichés y matizar en gran parte las visiones en blanco y negro sobre esta época crucial para la economía boliviana, la paulatina incorporación del Oriente al país y el destino también de los pueblos indígenas amazónicos. Con su lectura, la Historia gana en humanidad, en matices enriquecedores, en profundidad y credibilidad.
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Ethnohistory, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and 243 moreHistorical Geography, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, Latin American Literature (Literature), Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Political Economy, Visual Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Historical Sociology, Social Anthropology, Travel Writing, Latin America (Comparative Politics), Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Globalization, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Photography, Violence, Wilderness (Environment), Ethnography, Literature, Indigenous Languages, Colonial America, Visual Culture, Latin American politics, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Social Representations, Bolivian studies, Cultural Theory, Economic Anthropology, Migration, History of Anthropology, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Nationalism, Colonialism, Discrimination, Culture, History of Capitalism, Cultural Tourism, Literary Theory, Cross-Cultural Studies, Indigenous Knowledge, Culture Studies, History of Missions, Indigeneity, Representations, Globalisation and Development, Capitalism, Brazil, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mission Studies, Amazonia, Writing, Ethnology, Globalization And Postcolonial Studies, Ethnography (Research Methodology), Bolivia, Ethnic Identity, Ethnic minorities, Latin American literature, Migration Studies, Latin American History, Amazonian Languages, Social History, Imagination, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Ethnic Conflict, Transnational migration, Archaeology of ethnicity, Race And Ethnicity (in ) migration of indigenous people, South American indigenous languages, Anthropology of Borders, Migration (Anthropology), Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), Indigenous Peoples, Travel Literature, Social Imaginaries, Representation of Others, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Ethnographic Methods, Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Identities, Representation Theory, Photography (Visual Studies), History and anthropology, Racial and ethnic discrimination, History of Race and Ethnicity, Frontier Studies, Cultures of Capital and Capitalism, Latin American Colonial Literature, Commodification (Anthropology), Diarios de Viajes, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Anthropology of Capitalism, Relato De Viajes, Historia Social, Literatura Latinoamericana, Etnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Varieties of Capitalism, Colonization, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Historia, Representation, Literatura, Travelogue, Amazonian Studies, American Indians, Latin America, Travel, Borders and Frontiers, Ecocriticism, travel writing, popular literature and culture, Racismo y discriminación, Ethnopolitics, Interethnic Relations, Estudios sobre Violencia y Conflicto, Patrimonio Cultural, Natural rubber, Cultural Globalization, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Litterature de Voyages, Imaginarios sociales, Identity and Alterity, Etnologia, South American Indians, Indigenismo, Antropología Social, Sociología, Antropología, Historia política y social siglos XIX y XX, Literatura Comparada, Ethnologie, Representaciones Sociales, Bolivian migration, História, Globalización, Commodification, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Capitalismo, Travel and travelogues, Historia Cultural, Antropología Visual, Siglo XIX, Exploration, Estudios Latinoamericanos, Amazonas, Fotografía, Amazonian Cultures, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Imaginário social, Fotografia, Amazon, Humanities and Social Sciences, Latinoamerica, América Latina, Fronteras, Latin America and the Caribbean, Ethnic Conflicts, Historia de los pueblos indígenas, South America, Latinamerican Literature, Frontera, Rubber, Viajes, Voyage, Littératures coloniale de voyage, Travelling, Amazigh culture, Antropologia Visual, Povos Indígenas, Borders and Borderlands, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, Historia Moderna, Viajeros, Antropologia Social, Relações étnico-Raciais, Antropología histórica, Etnología, Americanismo, Indígenas, Relaciones interétnicas, Pueblos indígenas, Extractive industries, Interethnic interaction, ethnic stereotype, ethnic portrayal, Americanism, Etnologia Indígena, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Political Economy and History, Ethnicity and National Identity, Antropología de la violencia, Race/Ethnicity, Ethnic politics, Relações interétnicas, Antropología económica, Immigration and Ethnicity, Llanos de Moxos, Bolivian History, Escritura, Antropologia Social y Cultural, Historia de la Antropología, Globalizacion, Interethnic Relationships, Resistencia Indígena, Amazonia Bolivia, Literatura de viajes, Anthropology of Religion, Rubber boom (caucho), Post Extractivismo Y Derechos De La Naturaleza, identification and Interethnic Relations, Neo-extractivism, Extractivismo, Poblaciones Indígenas, Historia del Americanismo, Estrategias Espaciales Del Capitalismo:: Perspectiva Desde La Diversidad Social, Spatial Strategies of Capitalism, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Inter ethnic Relations, Lowland Tropical Forest, Anthropological and Literary Readings of Narratives, Las “Economías De Frontera” En La Historia Del Capitalismo, Interethnic Interaction, Village In the Jungle, Visual Anthropology and Sociology, Ethnicity and Nationality, Estudios De Latinoamerica, Bolivia-provincia :Guarayos, Antropologia, Social Science, Migration and Interethnic Relations, Interethnic Conflict, Ethnicity and interethnicity, and Interethnic coexistence
The extractive rubber boom in Bolivian Amazonia (1880-1920) not only reconfigured interethnic relations between indigenous peoples and white settlers but also reshaped the geopolitics of the region, as well as the way in which the... more
The extractive rubber boom in Bolivian Amazonia (1880-1920) not only reconfigured interethnic relations between indigenous peoples and white settlers but also
reshaped the geopolitics of the region, as well as the way in which the Amazon rainforest
itself was perceived by the national and international imaginaries. However, the historical and anthropological literature usually presents us with a hyper-masculinised view that tends to ignore or render almost invisible the role of women during the rubber era. Our aim is precisely to describe and analyse the roles played by mestizo and indigenous
women in these extractive circuits, in order to reconstruct their agency as protagonists
and to render their presence visible as active participants of the rubber industry.
Keywords: Rubber industry, Extractive industries, Indigenous women, Gender relations, Bolivian Amazonia, 19th and 20th centuries
reshaped the geopolitics of the region, as well as the way in which the Amazon rainforest
itself was perceived by the national and international imaginaries. However, the historical and anthropological literature usually presents us with a hyper-masculinised view that tends to ignore or render almost invisible the role of women during the rubber era. Our aim is precisely to describe and analyse the roles played by mestizo and indigenous
women in these extractive circuits, in order to reconstruct their agency as protagonists
and to render their presence visible as active participants of the rubber industry.
Keywords: Rubber industry, Extractive industries, Indigenous women, Gender relations, Bolivian Amazonia, 19th and 20th centuries
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, and 15 moreIndigenous Studies, Women's Studies, Social Sciences, Ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Amazonia, Bolivia, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Cultural Anthropology, Estudios de Género, South American Indians, Antropología, Amazonian Ethnology, and Anthropology of Lowland South America
The article analyses the exploitation of elastic rubber in Bolivian Amazonia (1880-1920), which played a crucial role in the definitive colonisation of the eastern part of the country. The goal of the paper is to describe the diverse... more
The article analyses the exploitation of elastic rubber in Bolivian Amazonia (1880-1920), which played a crucial role in the definitive colonisation of the eastern part of the country. The goal of the paper is to describe the diverse roles women played in the several stages and contexts of rubber extraction, aiming at documenting the operation of the extractive machinery from a female point of view and also to reconstruct the historical agency of the Creole, Indigenous and European women left out of the historical sources by the hypermasculinising bias of Amazonian history.
Research Interests: Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, and 15 moreSocial Anthropology, Women's Studies, Social Sciences, Ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Amazonia, Bolivia, Cultural Anthropology, Etnohistoria, South American Indians, Antropología, Anthropology of Lowland South America, and Extractive industries
El análisis etnohistórico de fuentes documentales académicas, orales, militares y misionales permite reconstruir las tensiones interétnicas en la frontera del Pilcomayo durante la década de 1930 y, en particular, el uso por parte de los... more
El análisis etnohistórico de fuentes documentales académicas, orales, militares y misionales permite reconstruir las tensiones interétnicas en la frontera del Pilcomayo durante la década de 1930 y, en particular, el uso por parte de los indígenas de la zona (fundamentalmente pilagás, tobas y nivaclés) del armamento bélico abandonado en el campo de batalla por las tropas bolivianas y paraguayas durante la Guerra del Chaco (1932-1935), o bien conseguido por los indígenas a través de incipientes redes regionales de intercambio y comercio. El artículo analiza el papel regional de este armamento en el desarrollo de la relación nativa con las misiones anglicanas, las fuerzas de seguridad nacionales y paraguayas, las poblaciones criollas circundantes y la constitución progresiva de la categoría genérica del ´indio´.
Research Interests: Religion, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, and 15 moreHistorical Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, War Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Paraguay, Argentina, Etnohistoria, Borders and Frontiers, South American Indians, Antropología, Missions, Anthropology of Lowland South America, and Gran Chaco
Stefanie Gänger, Michael Bollig, Timothy James LeCain, Paul J. Lane, Lorena Cordoba, Jean-Baptiste Pettier, Thomas Widlok, and Alexander Aisher, “Forum: Commodifying the 'Wild': Anxiety, Ecology and Authenticity in the Late Modern Era,”... more
Stefanie Gänger, Michael Bollig, Timothy James LeCain, Paul J. Lane, Lorena Cordoba, Jean-Baptiste Pettier, Thomas Widlok, and Alexander Aisher, “Forum: Commodifying the 'Wild': Anxiety, Ecology and Authenticity in the Late Modern Era,” Environmental History 24 (2019): 665-735.
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, and 15 moreWilderness (Environment), Natural Resources, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Ecology, Amazonia, Bolivia, Commodification (Anthropology), Nature, Historia, South American Indians, Antropología, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Extractive industries, and Anthropology and History of Lowland South America
En 1925 llegó al Chaco John Arnott (1907-1971), un joven anglicano de origen escocés que se enroló como misionero en la South American Missionary Society. Arnott pasó los siguientes diecisiete años de su vida en diversas estaciones... more
En 1925 llegó al Chaco John Arnott (1907-1971), un joven anglicano de origen escocés que se enroló como misionero en la South American Missionary Society. Arnott pasó los siguientes diecisiete años de su vida en diversas estaciones anglicanas del Chaco argentino y boliviano. Allí trabajó entre los wichís, los tobas, los pilagás y los guaraníes no sólo dedicado al trabajo evangélico sino mostrando una notable facilidad para aprender las lenguas indígenas así como una inclinación a desarrollar un conocimiento etnográfico de esos grupos, plasmada en textos antropológicos y colecciones de cultura material, o bien en su papel como fuente de consulta continua para autoridades académicas, como Alfred Métraux, Jules Henry o Stig Rydén. Mediante el análisis de fuentes documentales inéditas, proponemos que, lejos de iniciarse a raíz de esos contactos académicos, esa "inflexión etnográfica" de Arnott estaba ya latente desde el mismo momento de su llegada a Sudamérica. Palabras clave: Chaco, Bolivia, misioneros, indígenas, historia del americanismo.
Abstract: In 1925, John Arnott (1907-1971), a young Anglican of Scottish origin, arrived in Argentina. A field missionary with the South American Missionary Society , he spent the next 17 years in the Bolivian and Argentinian Chaco working among the Wichí, Pilagá, Toba and Guaraní Indians. Beyond his evangelical work, Arnott rapidly developed a stunning capacity to learn the native languages and even started to carry on ethnographic research into these indigenous cultures. This anthropological bias became even more marked with his ethnographic publications, the material collections he gathered for several international institutions, and his role as a consultant for renowned scholars such as Alfred Métraux, Jules Henry and Stig Rydén. By analyzing unpublished documents, we intend to show that Arnott’s ethnographical inclination did not originate in these academic interactions but was present in latent form since the very first moment
he arrived in South America. Keywords: Chaco, Bolivia, Missionaries, Indigenous peoples, History of americanism.
Abstract: In 1925, John Arnott (1907-1971), a young Anglican of Scottish origin, arrived in Argentina. A field missionary with the South American Missionary Society , he spent the next 17 years in the Bolivian and Argentinian Chaco working among the Wichí, Pilagá, Toba and Guaraní Indians. Beyond his evangelical work, Arnott rapidly developed a stunning capacity to learn the native languages and even started to carry on ethnographic research into these indigenous cultures. This anthropological bias became even more marked with his ethnographic publications, the material collections he gathered for several international institutions, and his role as a consultant for renowned scholars such as Alfred Métraux, Jules Henry and Stig Rydén. By analyzing unpublished documents, we intend to show that Arnott’s ethnographical inclination did not originate in these academic interactions but was present in latent form since the very first moment
he arrived in South America. Keywords: Chaco, Bolivia, Missionaries, Indigenous peoples, History of americanism.
Research Interests: Christianity, History, Ethnohistory, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, and 15 moreIndigenous Studies, Social Sciences, Ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, History of Missions, Bolivia, Ethnicity, Ethnographic Methods, Etnohistoria, South American Indians, Antropología, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, and Gran Chaco
El ´boom cauchero´ es un fenómeno histórico ineludible para entender la integración de la selva amazónica a la economía global. En efecto, entre 1870 y 1920 la mayoría de los países amazónicos se vuelca a la explotación y comercialización... more
El ´boom cauchero´ es un fenómeno histórico ineludible para entender la integración de la selva amazónica a la economía global. En efecto, entre 1870 y 1920 la mayoría de los países amazónicos se vuelca a la explotación y comercialización de la goma. ¿Cómo fue posible que medio siglo de expansión económica no haya desembocado en algún tipo de desarrollo sustentable? El artículo analiza particularmente el caso de Bolivia. Se describe el papel del boom gomero como ´hecho social total´ que impulsó la figuración del Oriente boliviano -hasta entonces relativamente ignorado- en el imaginario nacional e internacional. Además de la migración masiva, el apogeo del caucho provoca la fundación de ciudades y redes de comunicación, las incipientes leyes de concesión de tierras, las exploraciones hidrográficas, geográficas y topográficas de la parte selvática del país, la incorporación de territorios hasta entonces marginales a la administración estatal y la delimitación de las fronteras republicanas. Se describe luego la importancia del crédito en la maquinaria gomera, los postulados fundamentales de la lógica extractiva y la retórica modernizadora del ´orden y progreso´ basada en tres tópicos recurrentes: la oposición entre ´civilización´ y ´salvajismo´, la percepción de la selva como tierra de oportunidades y la idea de que la misma es una fuente de recursos prácticamente inagotable. Asimismo se analiza la coexistencia de voces alternativas o disonantes que permiten relativizar ese consenso, ligadas con la percepción más o menos humanitaria de la mano de obra, con las diferencias internas de la industria y la variedad de estrategias nacionales a la hora de enfrentar el problema de la sustentabilidad a largo plazo de la industria.
Research Interests: Cultural History, Economic History, Ethnohistory, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and 164 morePolitical Geography and Geopolitics, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Economics, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Political Economy, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Intercultural Communication, Historical Sociology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Sociology, Latin America (Comparative Politics), Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Heritage Studies, Border Studies, Geopolitics, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Social Representations, Bolivian studies, Brazilian Studies, Cultural Theory, Economic Anthropology, Archaeology of Colonialisms, Indigenous Politics, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Nationalism, Colonialism, Capital Markets, Culture, History of Capitalism, Cross-Cultural Studies, Post-Colonialism, Capitalism, Brazil, Ecology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Amazonia, Ethnology, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Bolivia, Ethnic Identity, Latin American History, Amazonian Languages, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Creolization, Ethnic Conflict, Archaeology of ethnicity, South American indigenous languages, Anthropology of Borders, Indigenous Peoples, Social Imaginaries, Representation of Others, Peruvian History, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Political Ecology (Anthropology), Ethnicity, Ethnographic Methods, Racial and ethnic discrimination, Nations and nationalism, History of Race and Ethnicity, Frontier Studies, Cultures of Capital and Capitalism, Latin American Colonial Literature, Anthropology of Colonialism, InterCultural Studies, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Anthropology of Capitalism, Ethnicity & Ethnic Conflicts, Comparative Historical Analysis, Exploitation, Anthropocene studies, Historia Social, Etnohistoria, Economy, Varieties of Capitalism, Historia, Economia, Amazonian Studies, Colonialismo, Latin America, Borders and Frontiers, Interethnic Relations, Ciências Sociais, Brasil, Natural rubber, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Imaginarios sociales, Global Capitalism, Etnologia, Amazônia, South American Indians, Indigenismo, Antropología Social, Antropología, Ciencias Sociales, Ethnologie, Representaciones Sociales, História, Amazonian Indians, Mestizaje, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Capitalismo, Historia Cultural, Amazonas, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Amazonian Cultures, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Indigenism, Anthropocene, Humanities and Social Sciences, América Latina, Fronteras, Geopolítica, Frontera, Frontier, Rubber, Etnografia, Ecología, Nacionalismo, Povos Indígenas, Medioambiente, Borders and Borderlands, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, História indígena e do indigenismo, Antropología histórica, Etnología, Relaciones interétnicas, Pueblos indígenas, Extractive industries, Etnologia Indígena, Ethnicity and National Identity, Anthropology and History of Lowland South America, Antropología económica, Bolivian History, Ethnology and Ethnography, Archaeology of Colonialism, South American Indian Languages, Social-Economic of Rubber Plantation, História da Amazônia, Rubber boom (caucho), Amerindian Cultures, Extractivismo, Ethnicity and Developmnet, Spatial Strategies of Capitalism, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Las “Economías De Frontera” En La Historia Del Capitalismo, Colonialism and Imperialism, Ethnicity and Nationality, Anthropological Debates, Ethnohistory and Oral History, Social Science, and Nationalism and identity construction
El estudio de la correspondencia entre los antropólogos Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) y Jules Henry (1904-1969) nos permite reconstruir la trastienda de la etnología chaqueña durante la década de 1930. Las cartas de ambos investigadores... more
El estudio de la correspondencia entre los antropólogos Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) y Jules Henry (1904-1969) nos permite reconstruir la trastienda de la etnología chaqueña durante la década de 1930. Las cartas de ambos investigadores entre sí, como también aquellas otras dirigidas a diversas personalidades de su ámbito profesional (Ruth Benedict, Paul Rivet, John Arnott, Enrique Palavecino, etc.), ponen de manifiesto la operación cotidiana de las redes académicas, la maquinaria
logística del trabajo de campo, las opiniones descarnadas de Métraux sobre la academia o el mundo cultural argentino, las reacciones adversas de Henry ante el consejo de su interlocutor o bien la visión del antropólogo suizo sobre los misioneros anglicanos, los indígenas chaqueños y las instituciones científicas internacionales, revelando matices inesperados de la «cultura y personalidad» de ambos antropólogos. Palabras clave: Chaco; Historia de la antropología; Alfred Métraux; Jules Henry.
SUMMARY - The study of the correspondence between anthropologists Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) and Jules Henry (1904-1969) helps us to reconstruct the background to Chaco ethnology during the decade of the 1930s. The letters between Métraux and Henry, and between both of them and several academic correspondents (Ruth Benedict, Paul Rivet, John Arnott, Enrique Palavecino, etc.), show the daily operation of academic networks, the logistics machinery of ethnographic fieldwork, Métraux’s stark opinions about Argentinian academic and cultural milieu, Henry’s adverse reaction to his correspondent’s advice and Métraux’s thoughts on indigenous peoples, Anglican missionaries and international scientific institutions. In the process, they reveal unexpected nuances of the «culture and personality» of both anthropologists. Key words: Chaco; History of Anthropology; Alfred Métraux; Jules Henry.
logística del trabajo de campo, las opiniones descarnadas de Métraux sobre la academia o el mundo cultural argentino, las reacciones adversas de Henry ante el consejo de su interlocutor o bien la visión del antropólogo suizo sobre los misioneros anglicanos, los indígenas chaqueños y las instituciones científicas internacionales, revelando matices inesperados de la «cultura y personalidad» de ambos antropólogos. Palabras clave: Chaco; Historia de la antropología; Alfred Métraux; Jules Henry.
SUMMARY - The study of the correspondence between anthropologists Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) and Jules Henry (1904-1969) helps us to reconstruct the background to Chaco ethnology during the decade of the 1930s. The letters between Métraux and Henry, and between both of them and several academic correspondents (Ruth Benedict, Paul Rivet, John Arnott, Enrique Palavecino, etc.), show the daily operation of academic networks, the logistics machinery of ethnographic fieldwork, Métraux’s stark opinions about Argentinian academic and cultural milieu, Henry’s adverse reaction to his correspondent’s advice and Métraux’s thoughts on indigenous peoples, Anglican missionaries and international scientific institutions. In the process, they reveal unexpected nuances of the «culture and personality» of both anthropologists. Key words: Chaco; History of Anthropology; Alfred Métraux; Jules Henry.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, History, Cultural History, Ethnohistory, Sociology, and 178 moreCultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, Latin American Literature (Literature), Anthropology, Ethnolinguistics, Historical Anthropology, Ontology, Visual Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Cultural Sociology, Social Research Methods and Methodology, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Museum Studies, Research Methodology, Ethnography, Literature, Linguistic Anthropology, Indigenous Languages, Auto-ethnography, Cosmology (Anthropology), Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Historiography, Amerindian Cosmologies, Social Representations, Literary Criticism, Cultural Theory, Academic Writing, Fieldwork in Anthropology, History of Anthropology, Indigenous Politics, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, History of Museums, Culture, Literary Theory, Cross-Cultural Studies, Ethnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology), Indigenous Knowledge, Indigeneity, Paraguay, Argentina, Ethnic and Racial Studies, South America (Archaeology), Amazonia, Writing, Ethnology, Social and Collective Memory, Ethnography (Research Methodology), Bolivia, Ethnic Identity, Epistolary literature, Amazonian Archaeology, Latin American literature, Latin American History, Amazonian Languages, Social History, History of Collections, Imagination, Fieldwork in linguistics, Archaeology of ethnicity, South American indigenous languages, Linguistic ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Social Imaginaries, Representation of Others, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Museology, Ethnicity, Ethnographic Methods, History of Race and Ethnicity, Latin American Colonial Literature, Ethnographic Studies, Ethnography of urban spaces, Indigenous Communication Theory, Ethnicity & Ethnic Conflicts, Etnohistoria, Historia, Representation, Literatura, Amazonian Studies, Ethnographic Research, Indigenous knowledge systems, Latin America, Ethnographic Writing, Borders and Frontiers, Interethnic Relations, Ciências Sociais, Chaco, Antropología Política, Museologia, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Imaginarios sociales, Museum and Heritage Studies, Etnologia, South American Indians, Indigenismo, Letters, Antropología Social, Anthropologie, Archaeology / Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Antropología, Ciencias Sociales, Etnolinguística, Ethnologie, Representaciones Sociales, Antropologia, Etnografia, Etnoecologia, Etnohistoria, História, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Academics, Amazonian Cultures, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Indigenism, América Latina, Historia de los pueblos indígenas, South America, Museum Collections (Research), Teoria Antropologica, Writing, Anthropological Linguistics, Gender and Language, Etnografia, Povos Indígenas, Americanisme, Gran Chaco (Paraguay), Culture and Personality, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, Sociological and anthropological theory, Amerindian languages, História indígena e do indigenismo, Antopologia, Relações étnico-Raciais, Etnología, Americanismo, Indígenas, Pueblos indígenas, Americanism, Etnologia Indígena, Ethnicity and National Identity, Indigenous Cosmologies, Antropologia Brasil índios, History of Ethnology, Anthropological Theory, Gran Chaco Sudamericano, Ethnology and Ethnography, Gran Chaco, Anthropological History, Historia de la Antropología, Interethnic Relationships, Resistencia Indígena, Amazonia Bolivia, História da Amazônia, Anthropology of Religion, Alfred Métraux, Ehnic group, Poblaciones Indígenas, Historia del Americanismo, Metodos Etnograficos, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Teoría Antropológica, Anthropological and Literary Readings of Narratives, Interethnic Interaction, Estudios étnicos, Anthropological Debates, Antropologia, Sociologie Des Relations Interethniques, Guaycuruan, hstoy of social, and Jules Henry
La historia de los misioneros anglicanos que llegan al Chaco argentino a principios de siglo XX dista de ser suficientemente conocida. A medida en que pasan los años, aparecen nuevas fuentes y materiales que nos permiten reconstruir poco... more
La historia de los misioneros anglicanos que llegan al Chaco argentino a principios de siglo XX dista de ser suficientemente conocida. A medida en que pasan los años, aparecen nuevas fuentes y materiales que nos permiten reconstruir poco a poco la experiencia anglicana y en particular su relación de tantos años con los pueblos indígenas chaqueños. Entre otros muchos emprendimientos exitosos de los religiosos anglicanos, este trabajo analiza la suerte efímera de la única misión con población pilagá, llamada justamente Misión Pilagá, abierta a fines de 1935 y cerrada en 1939. La estación fue epicentro de diversos conflictos entre los criollos vecinos y los pilagás, así como también de enfrentamientos entre los indígenas y las fuerzas militares tanto argentinas como paraguayas. Se analizan, en consecuencia, las razones del fracaso de la misión.
Research Interests: Religion, Christianity, Comparative Religion, Cultural History, Ethnohistory, and 104 moreCultural Studies, Sociology of Religion, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Philosophy Of Religion, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Translation Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History, Racial and Ethnic Politics, History of Religion, Ethnography, History of Christianity, Border Studies, Religion and Politics, Cosmology (Anthropology), Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Missiology and Mission Theology, Anthropology of Christianity, Culture, Missionary History, Religious Conversion, Christian Missions, History of Missions, Paraguay, Argentina, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mission Studies, History of Religions, Amazonia, Ethnology, Anglicanism (Anglicanism), Ethnography (Research Methodology), Ethnic Identity, Latin American History, Ethnic Conflict, South American indigenous languages, Indigenous Peoples, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Ethnographic Methods, History of Race and Ethnicity, Frontier Studies, Anglican Church History, Etnohistoria, Evangelism, Colonial Latin American History, Religious Studies, Amazonian Studies, Latin America, Interethnic Relations, Chaco, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Missionary, Etnologia, South American Indians, Indigenismo, Antropología Social, Antropología, Cristianismo, Missions, Antropologia, Etnografia, Etnoecologia, Etnohistoria, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Indigenism, Aboriginal Studies, América Latina, Fronteras, Missionaries, Etnografia, Pueblos Originarios, Amerindians, Gran Chaco (Paraguay), Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, História indígena e do indigenismo, Antropología histórica, Etnología, Indígenas, Pueblos indígenas, Etnologia Indígena, Indigenous Cosmologies, Gran Chaco Sudamericano, Gran Chaco, Evangelismo, Anthropology of Religion, Mission and Evangelism, Metodos Etnograficos, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Interethnic Interaction, Indigenous Languages of the Chaco Region (South America), Pilagá, Antropologia, and Guaycuruan
Missionnaire à la South American Missionary Society (société évangélique anglicane), l’écossais John Arnott (1907-1971) fut d’abord envoyé dans le nord argentin, puis travailla plusieurs années en Bolivie, auprès des Guarani, et enfin... more
Missionnaire à la South American Missionary Society (société évangélique anglicane), l’écossais John Arnott (1907-1971) fut d’abord envoyé dans le nord argentin, puis travailla plusieurs années en Bolivie, auprès des Guarani, et enfin dans le Chaco argentin, parmi les Wichi, Toba et Pilaga. Il collabora au travail de terrain d’anthropologues comme Alfred Métraux, Jules Henry, Stig Rydén ou Enrique Palavecino. Il publia plusieurs articles anthropologiques, illustra graphiquement la vie sociale du Chaco et donna d’importantes collections de culture matérielle indienne au musée de Göteborg en Suède. À partir des années 1950 il s’installa au Canada. Mots-clés : Ethnographe amateur | Missions chrétiennes / missionnaires | Bolivie | Guarani | Argentine | Écosse
Research Interests: Religion, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, and 80 moreAnthropology, Ethnolinguistics, Historical Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Racial and Ethnic Politics, History of Religion, Ethnography, Literature, Linguistic Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Bolivian studies, History of Anthropology, Identity (Culture), Missiology and Mission Theology, Culture, Missionary History, Cross-Cultural Studies, Ethnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology), Biography, Christian Missions, History of Missions, Paraguay, Argentina, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mission Studies, Ethnology, Ethnography (Research Methodology), Bolivia, Ethnic Identity, Latin American literature, South American indigenous languages, Linguistic ethnography, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Ethnographic Methods, History of Race and Ethnicity, Etnohistoria, Religious Studies, Amazonian Studies, Latin America, Chaco, Mission, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Etnologia, South American Indians, Indigenismo, Antropología Social, Antropología, Ethnologie, Missions, Antropologia, Etnografia, Etnoecologia, Etnohistoria, Cultura, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, América Latina, Gran Chaco (Paraguay), Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, Amerindian languages, Antropología histórica, Etnología, Americanismo, Indígenas, Pueblos indígenas, Americanism, Etnologia Indígena, Gran Chaco Sudamericano, Gran Chaco, Anthropology of Religion, Poblaciones Indígenas, Historia del Americanismo, Indigenous Languages of the Chaco Region (South America), and Antropologia
Este trabajo analiza la relación entre Alfred Métraux y los indígenas tobas y pilagás del Oeste formoseño en 1933. Se detallan las peculiares circunstancias sociopolíticas que enmarcan las campañas de terreno del joven antropólogo: los... more
Este trabajo analiza la relación entre Alfred Métraux y los indígenas tobas y pilagás del Oeste formoseño en 1933. Se detallan las peculiares circunstancias sociopolíticas que enmarcan las campañas de terreno del joven antropólogo: los problemas suscitados por la penosa situación económica en la Universidad de Tucumán, la Guerra del Chaco entre Bolivia y Paraguay (1932-1935), la ineludible relación con las misiones anglicanas de la South American Missionary Society y la tensa situación fronteriza entre Argentina y Paraguay. A través del entrecruzamiento de cartas personales, textos publicados y fuentes orales y escritas, se propone analizar pues el contexto general de las primeras campañas etnográficas de Métraux en el Gran Chaco. [Palabras clave: Métraux, Misioneros, Guerra, Indígenas, Gran Chaco.]
War-time Mission: Alfred Métraux in the Pilcomayo. The paper analyses the relationship between Alfred Métraux and the Toba and Pilagá peoples of Western Formosa (Argentina) during 1933. The peculiar sociopolitical circumstances that encompassed Métraux’s fieldwork are detailed: the logistical problems due to the feeble economic situation of University of Tucumán, the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932-1935), the inescapable relationship with the Anglican settlements of the South American Missionary Society and the tense situation on the national frontier between Argentina and Paraguay. By combining personal letters, published texts and oral and written sources, the paper aims to reconstruct the general context of the first ethnographic experiences of Métraux in the Gran Chaco. [key words: Métraux, Missionaries, War, Indigenous groups, Gran Chaco.]
War-time Mission: Alfred Métraux in the Pilcomayo. The paper analyses the relationship between Alfred Métraux and the Toba and Pilagá peoples of Western Formosa (Argentina) during 1933. The peculiar sociopolitical circumstances that encompassed Métraux’s fieldwork are detailed: the logistical problems due to the feeble economic situation of University of Tucumán, the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932-1935), the inescapable relationship with the Anglican settlements of the South American Missionary Society and the tense situation on the national frontier between Argentina and Paraguay. By combining personal letters, published texts and oral and written sources, the paper aims to reconstruct the general context of the first ethnographic experiences of Métraux in the Gran Chaco. [key words: Métraux, Missionaries, War, Indigenous groups, Gran Chaco.]
Research Interests: Religion, History, Cultural History, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, and 163 moreSocial Change, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Self and Identity, Peace and Conflict Studies, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Globalization, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Violence, Social Identity, Ethnography, Missiology, Latin American politics, Cosmology (Anthropology), Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Bolivian studies, Conflict, War Studies, Orality-Literacy Studies, History of Anthropology, Indigenous Politics, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Identity politics, Missiology and Mission Theology, Oral history, Culture, Missionary History, History of Capitalism, Ethnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology), Culture Studies, Christian Missions, History of Missions, Indigeneity, Paraguay, Cultural Identity, Globalisation and Development, Capitalism, Argentina, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mission Studies, Amazonia, Ethnology, Ethnography (Research Methodology), Bolivia, Ethnic Identity, Armed Conflict, Latin American literature, Latin American History, Amazonian Languages, Ethnic Conflict, Archaeology of ethnicity, Race And Ethnicity (in ) migration of indigenous people, South American indigenous languages, Linguistic ethnography, Anthropology of Borders, Paraguayan History, Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), Indigenous Peoples, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Central & South America (Anthropology), Ethnographic Methods, Ethnic Relations, Orality, Ethnic Identities, History of Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Latin American Colonial Literature, Ethnographic Studies, Anthropology of Capitalism, Ethnicity & Ethnic Conflicts, Historia Social, Etnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Social transformation, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Oral History and Memory, Historia, Cultural change, Amazonian Studies, Latin America, Borders and Frontiers, Interethnic Relations, Ciências Sociais, Chaco, Mission, Estudios sobre Violencia y Conflicto, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Etnologia, South American Indians, Indigenismo, Antropología Social, Antropología, Ciencias Sociales, Etnicidade, Ethnologie, Missional Church, Missions, Antropologia, Etnografia, Etnoecologia, Etnohistoria, História, Globalización, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Guerra, Oralidad, Social Conflict, Indigenism, Ethnographic-Case Study, América Latina, South America, Etnografia, Povos Indígenas, Gran Chaco (Paraguay), Borders and Borderlands, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Inter-civilization contact and conflict, Etnicidad, História indígena e do indigenismo, Etnología, Americanismo, Indígenas, Pueblos indígenas, Interethnic interaction, ethnic stereotype, ethnic portrayal, Lenguas indígenas, Americanism, Etnologia Indígena, Ethnicity and National Identity, Indigenous Cosmologies, Ethnic politics, Historia de las misiones, Gran Chaco Sudamericano, Ethnology and Ethnography, Gran Chaco, Anthropological History, Interethnic Relationships, Resistencia Indígena, Relations interethniques, Anthropology of Religion, Poblaciones Indígenas, Historia del Americanismo, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Inter ethnic Relations, Teoría Antropológica, Interethnic Interaction, Ethnicity and Nationality, Antropologia, Sociologie Des Relations Interethniques, Interethnic Conflict, Ethnicity and interethnicity, and Interethnic communication
The paper analyses the construction of discourses, views and representations about the indigenous societies of Bolivian Amazonia during the rubber boom. From the final decades of the 19th century to the beginnings of the 20th, the... more
The paper analyses the construction of discourses, views and representations about the indigenous societies of Bolivian Amazonia during the rubber boom. From the final decades of the 19th century to the beginnings of the 20th, the vernacular societies held ambivalent relations with the colonization forces (commerce, alliance, armed clashes, etc.). Nevertheless, the images and representations about them were neither stable nor homogeneous, because the Araona, Cavineño, Pacaguara, Caripuna and Chacobo were stereotyped in different ways by their observers. [Key words: Bolivian Amazonia, Indians, representations, rubber boom.]
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, History, Cultural History, Ethnohistory, Sociology, and 226 moreCultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, Latin American Literature (Literature), Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Critical Discourse Studies, Social Anthropology, Self and Identity, Travel Writing, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Globalization, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Wilderness (Environment), Social Identity, Ethnography, Literature, Indigenous Languages, Translation and Ideology, Border Studies, Geopolitics, Visual Culture, Latin American politics, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Indigenous Research Methodologies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Social Representations, Bolivian studies, Cultural Theory, Economic Anthropology, Indigenous Politics, Labour history, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Discourse, Ideology, Identity politics, Nationalism, Stereotypes, Stereotypes and Prejudice, Colonialism, Discrimination, Culture, History of Capitalism, Ethnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology), Indigenous Knowledge, Indigeneity, Representations, Cultural Identity, Capitalism, Brazil, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Amazonia, Ethnology, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Ethnography (Research Methodology), Bolivia, Ethnic Identity, Ethnic minorities, Latin American literature, Language and Ethnicity, Latin American History, Amazonian Languages, Imagination, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Ethnic Conflict, Archaeology of ethnicity, Race And Ethnicity (in ) migration of indigenous people, South American indigenous languages, Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), Indigenous Peoples, Travel Literature, Social Imaginaries, Representation of Others, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Ethnographic Methods, Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Identities, Representation Theory, Racial and ethnic discrimination, History of Race and Ethnicity, Frontier Studies, Cultures of Capital and Capitalism, Latin American Colonial Literature, Commodification (Anthropology), Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Anthropology of Capitalism, Ethnicity & Ethnic Conflicts, Ethnicity and Nationalism, World systems in the ancient and pre-capitalist worlds, Barbarians Perception, Etnohistoria, Identity, Philosophy of Alterity in Literature, Colonial Latin American History, Varieties of Capitalism, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Barbarians, Historia, Representation, Amazonian Studies, Colonial Discourse, Indigenous knowledge systems, Latin America, Scientists, Naturalists, Travelers and Explorers, Borders and Frontiers, Alterity, Racismo y discriminación, Interethnic Relations, Natural rubber, Cultural Globalization, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Imaginarios sociales, Identity and Alterity, Etnologia, Amazônia, South American Indians, Sociological Imagination, Indigenismo, Antropología Social, Sociología, Antropología, Ciencias Sociales, Etnicidade, Representaciones Sociales, Stereotyping, Bolivian migration, Antropologia, Etnografia, Etnoecologia, Etnohistoria, Globalización, Commodification, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Capitalismo, Wildlife, Travel and travelogues, Representações Sociais, Amazonian Cultures, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Imaginário social, Alteridade, Indigenism, Amazon, Latinoamerica, América Latina, Fronteras, Latin America and the Caribbean, Ethnic Conflicts, South America, Frontera, Frontier, Etnografia, Ethnic Groups, Nacionalismo, Povos Indígenas, Identidades, Political and economical sociology, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, Estereotipos, Alteridad, Amerindian languages, História indígena e do indigenismo, Relações étnico-Raciais, Antropología histórica, Etnología, Americanismo, Indígenas, Relaciones interétnicas, Pueblos indígenas, Rubber plantations, Extractive industries, Interethnic interaction, ethnic stereotype, ethnic portrayal, Americanism, Etnologia Indígena, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Ethnicity and National Identity, Race/Ethnicity, Ethnic politics, Relações interétnicas, Immigration and Ethnicity, Literatura indigenista, Bolivian History, South American Indian Languages, Interethnic Relationships, Resistencia Indígena, Amazonia Bolivia, Relations interethniques, História da Amazônia, Interethnic Differences, Rubber boom (caucho), identification and Interethnic Relations, Extractivismo, Ethnicity and Developmnet, Poblaciones Indígenas, Historia del Americanismo, Spatial Strategies of Capitalism, Boom Del Caucho, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Inter ethnic Relations, Sociology of Ethnicity and Race, Barbarie, Barbarism, Racial and Ethnic Relations, Las “Economías De Frontera” En La Historia Del Capitalismo, Othering and Alterity, Interethnic Interaction, Ethnicity and Nationality, Bolivia-provincia :Guarayos, Antropologia, Sociologie Des Relations Interethniques, Interethnic Conflict, Ethnicity and interethnicity, Interethnic coexistence, and Interethnic communication
Se exploran algunas de las líneas elementales que podría abordar una comparación entre industrias extractivas que funcionaron en ámbitos muy diversos de las tierras bajas sudamericanas: por un lado, las barracas gomeras de la Amazonía;... more
Se exploran algunas de las líneas elementales que podría abordar una comparación entre industrias extractivas que funcionaron en ámbitos muy diversos de las tierras bajas sudamericanas: por un lado, las barracas gomeras de la Amazonía; por el otro, los ingenios azucareros del gran Chaco. Para la primera, nos concentraremos en el caso de la Amazonía boliviana, en el antiguo 'territorio de Colonias' y los lugares adyacentes que constituyeron el epicentro del auge cauchero en ese país. Para la segunda, en los ingenios azucareros del noroeste argentino, ubicados en las provincias de Jujuy y Salta, los cuales reclutaban mano de obra indígena de una vasta región que abarcaba el Chaco, el piedemonte y las tierras altas de Argentina y Bolivia. Su historia es larga y compleja, y la bibliografía sobre ambas industrias es extensa. No vamos a repasar aquí esa historia o esos estudios; nuestras metas son mucho más modestas: nos proponemos señalar -echando mano a diversas fuentes documentales dejadas por misioneros, exploradores, políticos, funcionarios, y empresarios- algunos paralelos y disonancias muy generales entre ambas empresas, prestando especial atención al impacto que tuvieron sobre las sociedades indígenas que, de diversos modos, se vieron involucradas en ellas.
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, and 81 moreLatin American Studies, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Political Economy, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Social Sciences, Globalization, Ethnography, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Bolivian studies, Economic Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, History of Capitalism, Cross-Cultural Studies, Capitalism, Argentina, Amazonia, Ethnology, Bolivia, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Anthropology of Borders, Indigenous Peoples, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Ethnographic Methods, Frontier Studies, Cultures of Capital and Capitalism, Anthropology of Capitalism, Etnohistoria, Varieties of Capitalism, Sugar cane, Historia, Amazonian Studies, Latin America, Borders and Frontiers, Ethnopolitics, Interethnic Relations, Chaco, Antropología cultural, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Antropología, Ciencias Sociales, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Capitalismo, Amazonian Cultures, Anthropology of Lowland South America, South America, Gran Chaco (Paraguay), Borders and Borderlands, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Antropología histórica, Etnología, Relaciones interétnicas, Pueblos indígenas, Extractive industries, Etnologia Indígena, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Political Economy and History, Antropología de la tecnología, Antropología económica, Anthropological Theory, Gran Chaco Sudamericano, Economical Anthropology, Bolivian History, Gran Chaco, História da Amazônia, Rubber boom (caucho), Estrategias Espaciales Del Capitalismo:: Perspectiva Desde La Diversidad Social, Spatial Strategies of Capitalism, Las “Economías De Frontera” En La Historia Del Capitalismo, Anthropological Debates, Antropologia, and Ingenios Azucareros
The paper explores the relationship between Swiss ethnographer Alfred Métraux and Scottish missionary John Arnott of the South American Missionary Society, which lasted almost a decade. The reciprocal influence between these individuals... more
The paper explores the relationship between Swiss ethnographer Alfred Métraux and Scottish missionary John Arnott of the South American Missionary Society, which lasted almost a decade. The reciprocal influence between
these individuals is described with regard to both religious and academic factors. The paper also provides an analysis of the historical, social and political context of the Anglican missions in the Argentinian Chaco during 1933-1939, when Métraux did his ethnographic fieldwork.
these individuals is described with regard to both religious and academic factors. The paper also provides an analysis of the historical, social and political context of the Anglican missions in the Argentinian Chaco during 1933-1939, when Métraux did his ethnographic fieldwork.
Research Interests: Religion, Christianity, Comparative Religion, Cultural History, Ethnohistory, and 122 moreCultural Studies, Sociology of Religion, Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Philosophy Of Religion, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Cultural Sociology, Self and Identity, Social Sciences, Racial and Ethnic Politics, History of Religion, Ethnography, Missiology, History of Christianity, Religion and Politics, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Social Representations, Bolivian studies, Cultural Theory, Psychology of Religion, Fieldwork in Anthropology, History of Anthropology, Indigenous Politics, Identity (Culture), Early Christianity, Race and Ethnicity, Missiology and Mission Theology, Religious Pluralism, Anthropology of Christianity, Culture, Science and Religion, Missionary History, Popular Culture and Religious Studies, Religious Conversion, Ethnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology), Culture Studies, Christian Missions, History of Missions, Paraguay, Argentina, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mission Studies, History of Religions, Amazonia, Ethnology, Ethnography (Research Methodology), Bolivia, Ethnic Identity, Archaeology of ethnicity, South American indigenous languages, Linguistic ethnography, Beliefs, Indigenous Peoples, Representation of Others, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Ethnographic Methods, Etnohistoria, Religious Studies, Representation, Amazonian Studies, Borders and Frontiers, Chaco, Mission, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Conversion, Missionary, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Antropología, Ethnologie, Missions, Antropologia, Etnografia, Etnoecologia, Etnohistoria, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Evangelical missionary networks, Missional Church Theology, Latinoamerica, Processes of Conversion (Christianization), Etnografia, Gran Chaco (Paraguay), Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, Sociological and anthropological theory, Etnología, Americanismo, Relaciones interétnicas, Pueblos indígenas, Americanism, Etnologia Indígena, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Evangelización, Ethnic politics, Self Representation, Historia de las misiones, Anthropological Theory, Gran Chaco Sudamericano, Gran Chaco, Historia de la Antropología, Chaco War, Anthropology of Religion, Latinamericanism, Alfred Métraux, Historia del Americanismo, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Anthropological Debates, History of Archaeology and Anthropology, Ethnohistory and Oral History, Antropologia, Evangelização, John Arnott, and South American Missionary Society
The article discusses the construction of social representations on the Panoan indigenous peoples of Bolivian Amazonia during the rubber boom (late 19th Century and early 20th Century). It is argued that this imagery was neither... more
The article discusses the construction of social representations on the Panoan indigenous peoples of Bolivian Amazonia during the rubber boom (late 19th Century and early 20th Century). It is argued that this imagery was neither homogenous nor stable, and that the Pacaguara, Chacobo and Caripuna were portrayed in multiple ways by their observers.
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, and 119 moreEthnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Ethnolinguistics, Historical Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Historical Sociology, Social Anthropology, Self and Identity, Travel Writing, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Social Identity, Ethnography, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Social Representations, Bolivian studies, Cultural Theory, Economic Anthropology, Indigenous Politics, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Ideology, Culture, History of Capitalism, Indigenous Knowledge, Capitalism, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Amazonia, Ethnology, Bolivia, Ethnic Identity, Ethnic minorities, Latin American History, Amazonian Languages, Social History, Imagination, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Ethnic Conflict, Archaeology of ethnicity, South American indigenous languages, Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), Indigenous Peoples, Social Imaginaries, Representation of Others, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Ethnographic Methods, Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Identities, History of Race and Ethnicity, Frontier Studies, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Gender and Etnicity (Anthropology of Friendship), Anthropology of Capitalism, Ethnicity & Ethnic Conflicts, Historia Social, Etnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Historia, Representation, Amazonian Studies, Latin America, Borders and Frontiers, Ethnopolitics, Interethnic Relations, Antropología cultural, Imaginarios sociales, Identity and Alterity, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Antropología, Ciencias Sociales, Ethnologie, Representaciones Sociales, Antropologia, Etnografia, Etnoecologia, Etnohistoria, História, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Capitalismo, Mojos, Antropología Visual, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Imaginário social, Hevea brasiliensis, Amazon, América Latina, South America, Frontier, Political and Economic Anthropology, Rubber, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, Alteridad, Amerindian languages, Viajeros, Relaciones interétnicas, Extractive industries, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Ethnicity and National Identity, Ethnic politics, Bolivian History, Amazonia Bolivia, História da Amazônia, Rubber boom (caucho), Nomadic/Indigenous People, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Inter ethnic Relations, Visual Anthropology and Sociology, Bolivia-provincia :Guarayos, and Antropologia
Except for a few remaining Yaminahua and Pacaguara, the Chacobo are currently the only Pano-speaking group of Bolivian Amazonia. We offer preliminary results of ongoing genealogical research about Chacobo marriage alliance by analysing a... more
Except for a few remaining Yaminahua and Pacaguara, the Chacobo are currently the only Pano-speaking group of Bolivian Amazonia. We offer preliminary results of ongoing genealogical research about Chacobo marriage alliance by analysing a matrimonial network that involves the totality of Chacobo population (1049 people, 348 marriages and 21 settlements) during the period 2000-2010. The analysis reveals the importance of serial affinity, the translation of kinship in a spatial dimension, and that a proper understanding of Chacobo marriage can not be limited to the logical structure of the ´kinship system´. Any adequate understanding must also encompass a wider set of relations that include historical matters such as the mutable meaning of ethnonyms and social groups, the recycling of interethnic relationships, and the sociological impact of missionary activity.
Research Interests: Cultural History, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, and 91 moreHistorical Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Social Sciences, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Family studies, Genealogy, Social Identity, Ethnography, Kinship (Anthropology), Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Bolivian studies, Fieldwork in Anthropology, Indigenous Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Family, Kinship (History), Culture, Missionary History, Ethnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology), Christian Missions, History of Missions, Indigeneity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mission Studies, Amazonia, Ethnology, Ethnography (Research Methodology), Bolivia, Ethnic Identity, Ethnic minorities, Anthropology of Kinship, Marriage Transactions (Anthropology of Kinship), Archaeology of ethnicity, Indigenous Peoples, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Ethnographic Methods, Ethnic Identities, History of Race and Ethnicity, Archaeology of Kinship and the Family, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Marriage (History), Kinship and Relatedness (Anthropology), Etnohistoria, Kinship, Amazonian Studies, Relatedness, Marriage, Social organization, Interethnic Relations, Mission, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Anthropologie, Antropología, Marriage and Kinship, Sociology and Anthropology, Missions, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Marriage and Family, Mojos, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Kinship and Family Studies, Antropología y Sociología Jurídica, Estudios de Género y Familia, Etnografia, Etnicidad, Etnología, Parentesco, Pueblos indígenas, Etnologia Indígena, Anthropology and History of Lowland South America, Ethnic politics, Anthropological Theory, Bolivian History, Amazonia Bolivia, Anthropology of Religion, Chacobo, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Anthropological Debates, and Antropologia
El artículo describe la continuidad paradójica entre la actitud crítica de los misioneros católicos respecto del tratamiento de la mano de obra indígena durante el llamado boom cauchero en la Amazonía boliviana, a fines del siglo XIX y... more
El artículo describe la continuidad paradójica entre la actitud crítica de los misioneros católicos respecto del tratamiento de la mano de obra indígena durante el llamado boom cauchero en la Amazonía boliviana, a fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX, y la posterior relación de mayor complejidad que establecieron los misioneros protestantes del Instituto Lingüístico de Verano con los chacobos (flia. ling. pano) desde la década de 1950 hasta su salida de Bolivia en la década de 1980. Estos últimos no sólo incentivaron activamente a los indígenas a trabajar la industria cauchera e integrarse a la economía regional, sino que además iniciaron políticas explícitas e implícitas para intervenir en la sociabilidad indígena: conformación de estructuras centralizadas de liderazgo político, relaciones de compadrazgo, implementación de la patronimización, promoción de la familia nuclear en detrimento de la familia extensa, prohibición del matrimonio bilateral de primos cruzados, la alianza serial, sororal, poligínica, etc. Asimismo, se describen las prácticas y estrategias indígenas para absorber selectivamente dicha agenda, viabilizar la convivencia e incorporarse exitosamente a la sociedad nacional.
Research Interests: Religion, History, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Religion, and 117 moreEthnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Globalization, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Ethnography, Missiology, History of Christianity, Indigenous Languages, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Social Representations, Bolivian studies, Religion and Colonialism, Economic Anthropology, Indigenous Politics, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Missiology and Mission Theology, Oral history, Anthropology of Christianity, Culture, Missionary History, History of Capitalism, Indigenous Knowledge, Culture Studies, Christian Missions, History of Missions, Indigeneity, Capitalism, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mission Studies, Amazonia, Ethnology, Ethnography (Research Methodology), Bolivia, Ethnic Identity, Ethnic minorities, Religion and Globalization, Latin American History, Work and Labour, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Evangelicalism, Archaeology of ethnicity, Indigenous Peoples, Representation of Others, Cultural Anthropology, Colonial Religion in Latin America, Ethnicity, Ethnic Relations, History of Race and Ethnicity, Cultures of Capital and Capitalism, Latin American Economic History, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Anthropology of Capitalism, Etnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Varieties of Capitalism, Representation, Etnography, Amazonian Studies, Latin America, History and Theology of Missions, Ethnopolitics, Interethnic Relations, Mission, Cultural Globalization, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Missionary, Etnologia, South American Indians, Missionary Studies, Indigenismo, Antropología Social, Antropología, Sociology and Anthropology, Representaciones Sociales, Missions, Globalización, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Capitalismo, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Hevea brasiliensis, Evangelical missionary networks, América Latina, Etnografia, Pueblos Originarios, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, Etnología, Relaciones interétnicas, Pueblos indígenas, Extractive industries, Etnologia Indígena, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Ethnicity and National Identity, Ethnic politics, Anthropology of Religion, Rubber boom (caucho), Extractivismo, Spatial Strategies of Capitalism, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Inter ethnic Relations, Industrias Extractivas, Las “Economías De Frontera” En La Historia Del Capitalismo, Anthropological Debates, and Antropologia
El artículo analiza la explotación de hevea brasiliensis en la región amazónica boliviana y la relación establecida entre dicha industria y la etnicidad regional. Dicha actividad puede rastrearse desde la mitad del siglo XIX en adelante,... more
El artículo analiza la explotación de hevea brasiliensis en la región amazónica boliviana y la relación establecida entre dicha industria y la etnicidad regional. Dicha actividad puede rastrearse desde la mitad del siglo XIX en adelante, cuando se registran los primeros contactos entre el frente cauchero y los diferentes grupos étnicos que habitaban la zona. A través del análisis de diversas fuentes de misioneros, exploradores, políticos y de los mismos caucheros, el objetivo del trabajo es dar cuenta de las múltiples relaciones que los diferentes actores sociales trabaron en dichos encuentros desde el punto de vista de la larga duración. Se trata de cuestionar la visión tradicional sobre las sociedades indígenas y su presunta actitud pasiva frente al colonizador, contemplando en cambio un abanico de respuestas multiformes y situacionales que incluyó los tratos comerciales, los enfrentamientos armados, las relaciones amistosas e incluso de compadrazgo entre otras tantas opciones posibles.
Research Interests: Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, and 104 moreHistorical Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Globalization, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Ethnography, Latin American politics, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Comparative History, Social Representations, Bolivian studies, Economic Anthropology, History of Social Sciences, Indigenous Politics, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Nationalism, Oral history, Colonialism, History of Capitalism, Cross-Cultural Studies, History of Missions, Indigeneity, Capitalism, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Amazonia, Amazonia, Bolivia, Ethnic Identity, Latin American History, Work and Labour, Amazonian Languages, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Ethnic Conflict, Archaeology of ethnicity, Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), Indigenous Peoples, Representation of Others, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Indigenous peoples of Latin America, Ethnic Relations, History of Race and Ethnicity, Frontier Studies, Cultures of Capital and Capitalism, Latin American Economic History, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Anthropology of Capitalism, Ethnicity & Ethnic Conflicts, Etnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Varieties of Capitalism, Representation, Amazonian Studies, Latin America, Borders and Frontiers, Interethnic Relations, Imaginarios sociales, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología, Representaciones Sociales, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Capitalismo, Mojos, Amazonian Cultures, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Hevea brasiliensis, América Latina, Fronteras, Latin America and the Caribbean, Political and Economic Anthropology, Rubber, Pueblos Originarios, Nacionalismo, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, Etnología, Pueblos indígenas, Extractive industries, Etnologia Indígena, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Ethnicity and National Identity, Ethnic politics, Antropología económica, Bolivian History, História da Amazônia, Rubber boom (caucho), History of Amazonian Region, Extractivismo, Estrategias Espaciales Del Capitalismo:: Perspectiva Desde La Diversidad Social, Spatial Strategies of Capitalism, Boom Del Caucho, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Inter ethnic Relations, Las “Economías De Frontera” En La Historia Del Capitalismo, and Ethnohistory and Oral History
Amazonian ethnology has traditionally labelled Pacaguaras, Chacobos, Sinabos or Caripunas as Southeastern Panoan groups. However, ethnohistorical analysis reveals that canonical classification hides three important facts. First, that the... more
Amazonian ethnology has traditionally labelled Pacaguaras, Chacobos, Sinabos or Caripunas as Southeastern Panoan groups. However, ethnohistorical analysis reveals that canonical classification hides three important facts. First, that the continuous existence of such categories designating collective ethnic actors through history has not been properly attested -on the contrary, everything suggests that they are contingent constructions which appear, mute or fade according to context. Second, from a comparative standpoint the distinction between Southeastern Panoans (Chacobo, Pacaguara, Caripuna) and Southwestern Panoans (Yamiaca, Atsahuaca) makes no sense -on the contrary, a diachronic perspective shows that Southern Panoan is a more fertile comparative and heuristic concept. Third, that though there certainly are some features that makes the Southern Panoans resemble the typical Panoans, their ethnic identity has been forged by a complex set of relationships with societies of different ethnolinguistic affiliation: Araonas, Tacanas, Cayuvavas, Cavineños, Movimas. Therefore, terms such as Chacobo, Pacaguara or Caripuna do not designate stable, close, homogeneous entities (i.e. ethnonyms in the classic sense of the term) but generic, relational categories which operate reflecting diverse mediations, connections and contacts between the Southern Panoans and other indigenous groups; jesuit, franciscan and secular missionaries; rubber barons; explorers and militar agents sent by Spain and Portugal during the colonial context and by Bolivia, Brasil and Perú during the period of republican consolidation and frontier dispute between the rising nations.
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, and 92 moreAnthropology, Historical Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Cultural Sociology, Self and Identity, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Social Identity, Ethnography, Indigenous Languages, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Social Representations, Bolivian studies, Indigenous Politics, Identity (Culture), Anthropology of space, Race and Ethnicity, Identity politics, Culture, History of Missions, Indigeneity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Amazonia, Ethnology, Bolivia, Ethnic Identity, Ethnic minorities, Latin American History, Amazonian Languages, Ethnic Conflict, Archaeology of ethnicity, South American indigenous languages, Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Identities, Representation Theory, History of Race and Ethnicity, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Ethnicity & Ethnic Conflicts, Etnohistoria, Identity, Colonial Latin American History, Representation, Amazonian Studies, Latin America, Borders and Frontiers, Ethnopolitics, Interethnic Relations, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Identity and Alterity, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Anthropologie, Antropología, Etnicidade, Sociology and Anthropology, Ethnologie, Representaciones Sociales, Cultura, Amazonian Indians, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Mojos, Anthropology of Lowland South America, South America, Pueblos Originarios, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, Etnología, Relaciones interétnicas, Pueblos indígenas, Etnologia Indígena, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Ethnic politics, Relações interétnicas, Amazonia Bolivia, Pueblos Indigenas, Nomadic/Indigenous People, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Inter ethnic Relations, Etnogenesis, Ethnicity and Nationality, and Antropologia
Pour les Chacobo (Pano de l´Amazonie bolivienne), la condition féminine n´est pas un état purement "naturel" ou "physiologique" ni défini une fois pour toutes. La femme y accède seulement à travers des étapes progressives de construction... more
Pour les Chacobo (Pano de l´Amazonie bolivienne), la condition féminine n´est pas un état purement "naturel" ou "physiologique" ni défini une fois pour toutes. La femme y accède seulement à travers des étapes progressives de construction et de modelage social de sa personne. Nous examinons ici les représentations et pratiques qui constituent l´"humanité" et la "personne" pour les Chacobo en général; dans le cas particulier des femmes, nous analysons les conditions attribuées à la féminité à travers de la conception de la gestation et la procréation, la représentation mythique de la sexualité, les restrictions rituelles autour de la grossesse et la couvade, l´initiation féminine, la division sexuelle du travail, l´idéologie des relations entre sexes et quelques-unes des règles de l´organisation sociale.
Research Interests: Social Theory, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, and 61 moreIndigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Sex and Gender, Women's Studies, Social Sciences, Women's History, Social Identity, Ethnography, Gender History, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Anthropology of the Body, Bolivian studies, Gender and Sexuality, Anthropology of Gender, Fieldwork in Anthropology, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Gender Equality, Personhood, Personalization, Women, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Amazonia, Ethnology, Ethnography (Research Methodology), Bolivia, Amazonian Languages, Personal Identity, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Indigenous Peoples, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Ritual Theory, Ethnicity, Ethnographic Methods, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Women and Culture, Identity, Gender and Personhood, Women and Gender Studies, Amazonian Studies, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Anthropologie, Antropología, Ethnologie, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Pueblos Originarios, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnología, Etnologia Indígena, Panoan, Morality and Personhood, and Antropologia
Buena parte de la teoría canónica sobre la iniciación femenina entre los pueblos chaqueños se remonta a las observaciones de Rafael Karsten y Alfred Métraux. Ninguno de ellos llegaron a profundizar demasiado en los aspectos sociológicos... more
Buena parte de la teoría canónica sobre la iniciación femenina entre los pueblos chaqueños se remonta a las observaciones de Rafael Karsten y Alfred Métraux. Ninguno de ellos llegaron a profundizar demasiado en los aspectos sociológicos de la iniciación. Para ambos las fiestas, las danzas, los juegos y especialmente la ingesta de aloja (cerveza de algarroba) constituían los marcadores cruciales del ingreso de la joven a la vida adulta –y ambos señalan que estas celebraciones no eran exclusivas de los toba, siendo posible extender su modelo descriptivo a la gran mayoría de las etnias del gran Chaco. Entre los toba-pilagá percibimos hoy un proceso gradual de construcción de la persona que constantemente elimina, resignifica y permuta elementos en combinaciones inéditas. La construcción de la persona en general, y de la identidad de género en particular, es un trabajo continuo de lo social que hace personas de los individuos. Mediante un conjunto más o menos articulado de abstenciones, oposiciones e ideas, esta fabricación sociohistórica de la persona encauza el desarrollo de la humanidad en sus momentos más críticos. Este imaginario no sólo traza los contornos de una teoría determinada de la femineidad, sino también una suerte de mapa de relaciones concretas con el mundo masculino –en definitiva, se trata de un sistema de acción y pensamiento que pone en escena una codificación ideológica de las relaciones de género.
Research Interests: Religion, Comparative Religion, Cultural Studies, Social Change, Social Theory, and 59 moreSociology of Religion, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Philosophy Of Religion, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Self and Identity, Sex and Gender, Women's Studies, Social Sciences, Social Identity, Ethnography, Gender History, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Ritual, Gender and Sexuality, Fieldwork in Anthropology, Indigenous Politics, Identity (Culture), Gender, Oral Traditions, Personhood, Indigenous Knowledge, Argentina, Gender Discourse, Ethnology, Ethnic Identity, Symbolic Anthropology (Anthropology), Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Anthropology, Ritual Theory, Ethnographic Methods, Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, Archaeology of Ritual, Cosmology, Women and Gender Studies, Chaco, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Antropología, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Pueblos Originarios, Gran Chaco (Paraguay), Etnología, Pueblos indígenas, Ritual Practices, Gran Chaco Sudamericano, Gran Chaco, Anthropology of Religion, Nomadic/Indigenous People, and Antropologia
Examinaremos en estas páginas la problematización en una serie de mitos de algunas de las características y los requisitos que, para los chacobo, constituyen la condición humana. Esta condición, que los chacobo traducen al castellano como... more
Examinaremos en estas páginas la problematización en una serie de mitos de algunas de las características y los requisitos que, para los chacobo, constituyen la condición humana. Esta condición, que los chacobo traducen al castellano como “ser gente”, es categorizada conceptualmente como un estado denominado nohiria. En primer lugar, no es nuestra intención analizar la concepción general de la “persona” y de “lo humano” en la praxis y en la vida cotidiana de los chacobo; el énfasis se concentrará más bien, de forma específica, en ciertas claves temáticas que revela explícita o implícitamente la narrativa mítica. Debe quedar claro que ni siquiera estamos hablando de la “narrativa mítica” de los chacobo considerada como una totalidad, sino apenas de una serie de relatos que, pese a ser limitados en número, creemos pertinentes y significativos. En segundo lugar, deben quedar claras las condiciones narrativas de la mitología chacobo. Los informantes relatan los mitos en tiempo pasado. El mundo de la mítica no es un mundo de potencias presentes, de posibilidades latentes, de proyecciones rituales inexorables. Esto no implica que los problemas que plantea el mito no tengan una influencia en el pensamiento chacobo. En general se relatan los mitos como leyendas de personajes lejanos (“el cuento de Ashiná”); y, con mayor frecuencia, como meras etiologías (“el cuento del tejido”). Sin embargo, más allá de las intenciones explícitas, las razones declaradas y las finalidades conscientes, todo indica que estos mitos constituyen maneras que los chacobo tienen de representar de una u otra forma su vida en sociedad. En tercer lugar, pensar en un proceso de constitución de la humanidad no implica en modo alguno ordenar los relatos en términos de un pasaje unidireccional y mecánico de la “naturaleza” a la “cultura”. Lo que los mitos ponen en juego es más bien un interés puntilloso por un juego fluido de rupturas y continuidades entre la humanidad y no-humanidad. Este dilema básico está representado por el carácter animal y ambigüedad de los personajes, pero también por su eventual sacralidad. En primer lugar, no es nuestra intención analizar la concepción general de la “persona” y de “lo humano” en la praxis y en la vida cotidiana de los chacobo; el énfasis se concentrará más bien, de forma específica, en ciertas claves temáticas que revela explícita o implícitamente la narrativa mítica. Debe quedar claro que ni siquiera estamos hablando de la “narrativa mítica” de los chacobo considerada como una totalidad, sino apenas de una serie de relatos que, pese a ser limitados en número, creemos pertinentes y significativos. En segundo lugar, deben quedar claras las condiciones narrativas de la mitología chacobo. Los informantes relatan los mitos en tiempo pasado. El mundo de la mítica no es un mundo de potencias presentes, de posibilidades latentes, de proyecciones rituales inexorables. Esto no implica que los problemas que plantea el mito no tengan una influencia en el pensamiento chacobo. En general se relatan los mitos como leyendas de personajes lejanos (“el cuento de Ashiná”); y, con mayor frecuencia, como meras etiologías (“el cuento del tejido”). Sin embargo, más allá de las intenciones explícitas, las razones declaradas y las finalidades conscientes, todo indica que estos mitos constituyen maneras que los chacobo tienen de representar de una u otra forma su vida en sociedad. En tercer lugar, pensar en un proceso de constitución de la humanidad no implica en modo alguno ordenar los relatos en términos de un pasaje unidireccional y mecánico de la “naturaleza” a la “cultura”. Lo que los mitos ponen en juego es más bien un interés puntilloso por un juego fluido de rupturas y continuidades entre la humanidad y no-humanidad. Este dilema básico está representado por el carácter animal y ambigüedad de los personajes, pero también por su eventual sacralidad.
Research Interests: Religion, Comparative Religion, Mythology And Folklore, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Religion, and 66 moreEthnic Studies, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Mythology, Philosophy Of Religion, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Women's Studies, Social Sciences, Philosophical Anthropology, History of Religion, Ethnography, Linguistic Anthropology, Anthropology of Knowledge, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Bolivian studies, Ritual, Gender and Sexuality, Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnic and Racial Studies, History of Religions, Amazonia, Bolivia, Amazonian Languages, Symbolic Anthropology (Anthropology), Symbolism (Religion), Ancient myth and religion, Indigenous Peoples, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Ritual Theory, Ethnographic Methods, Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, Classical Mythology, Comparative mythology, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Myth, Amazonian Studies, Myth, Folk Studies, Legends, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Etnologia, South American Indians, Myths, Mitologia, Antropología Social, Antropología, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Myth and Literature, Pueblos Originarios, MITOLOGÍA COMPARADA, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnología, Pueblos indígenas, Ritual Practices, Etnologia Indígena, Mitología, Anthropology of Religion, Panoan, Antropologia, and Panoan Languages
La cuestión de hasta qué punto la guerra del Chaco entre Bolivia y Paraguay (1932-35) fue un factor decisivo en la historia de los pueblos chaqueños no puede ser respondida en función de interpretaciones mecánicas y formulaciones... more
La cuestión de hasta qué punto la guerra del Chaco entre Bolivia y Paraguay (1932-35) fue un factor decisivo en la historia de los pueblos chaqueños no puede ser respondida en función de interpretaciones mecánicas y formulaciones generales, sino que inevitablemente exige atender la diversidad de las circunstancias particulares en la experiencia bélica de cada uno de estos pueblos. En una perspectiva regional, la guerra que se desarrollaba del otro lado del río no tuvo el mismo impacto en la vida social de los indígenas del Pilcomayo medio. Por diversas cuestiones algunos grupos se vieron más involucrados que otros. Desde la perspectiva indígena las razones de la guerra –así como las consecuentes afiliaciones, las disputas fronterizas o las mismas políticas nacionales– no quedaban la mayoría de las veces demasiado claras, y no era infrecuente que ni siquiera se comprendiese quiénes eran los bandos que se enfrentaban –así, muchos indígenas recuerdan que hubo una guerra contra los paraguayos y los bolivianos. Si hemos de generalizar, podríamos decir que el conflicto fue percibido de un modo más o menos abstracto y lejano, lo cual no implica en modo alguno que la guerra haya carecido de impacto. Los wichí-guisnay abandonaron, para siempre, buena parte de sus antiguas tierras; los pilagá reforzaron la construcción de su propia identidad étnica como custodios de las fronteras nacionales frente a la incursión de los extranjeros nivaclé y maká; y para los toba-pilagá, finalmente, veremos que sería tan excesivo pensar que la guerra fue un evento carente de significación como lo sería también, en el otro extremo, interpretarla como un hito crucial en la estructuración de la memoria colectiva. La experiencia indígena del conflicto es incomprensible si se la divorcia de un contexto histórico concreto caracterizado por las epidemias, la inserción progresiva en la economía regional, el impacto de la evangelización anglicana y la relación ambigua con los otros pueblos chaqueños, los colonos criollos y los militares argentinos. Este punto de vista integral permite matizar y comprender en su justa medida el peso relativo de una guerra vislumbrada desde la margen opuesta del río como un tiempo de peligro en el cual no se tomó abiertamente partido por ninguno de los bandos en pugna, sino más bien atendiendo a los propios intereses. Para los pueblos del Pilcomayo medio, en definitiva, la vivencia de la guerra fue una experiencia lateral, probablemente fragmentaria y seguramente interesada; y, a la vez, interpretada –como otros acontecimientos del mundo externo– en la clave de los valores culturales propios.
Research Interests: Ethnohistory, Social Change, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, and 20 moreHistorical Anthropology, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, War Studies, Argentina, Latin American History, Ethnic Conflict, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Etnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Borders and Frontiers, Chaco, Etnologia, Antropología, Amazonian History, Frontier, and Gran Chaco (Paraguay)
Entre los chacobo (Pano) de la Amazonía boliviana, la condición femenina no constituye un estado puramente fisiológico definido de una vez y para siempre. Un ser humano deviene mujer (yoxa) sólo a través de etapas progresivas de... more
Entre los chacobo (Pano) de la Amazonía boliviana, la condición femenina no constituye un estado puramente fisiológico definido de una vez y para siempre. Un ser humano deviene mujer (yoxa) sólo a través de etapas progresivas de modelado del cuerpo y construcción de la persona. Se analizan entonces las representaciones y prácticas más generalizadas que constituyen la “humanidad” y la “persona” entre los chacobo. En el caso particular de las mujeres, luego, se examinan las ideas y valores asociados con el análisis de los procesos de gestación y procreación, la representación mítica de la sexualidad, las restricciones y prescripciones del embarazo y la couvade, la iniciación femenina, la división sexual del trabajo, la ideología nativa de las relaciones de género y los principios de organización social.
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Social Anthropology, Sex and Gender, and 25 moreEthnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Bolivian studies, Gender and Sexuality, Anthropology of Gender, Gender, Personhood, Indigenous Knowledge, Amazonia, Ethnology, Bolivia, Amazonian Languages, Ethnographic fieldwork, Cultural Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Pueblos indígenas, Etnologia Indígena, and Panoan
L. Córdoba, “Liderazgo, grupos locales y organización sociopolítica entre los toba del oeste formoseño”, J. Braunstein & N. Meichtry (eds.), Liderazgo: Representatividad y control social en el Gran Chaco. Editorial Universitaria de la Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, pp. 135-139, 2008.more
Los toba del oeste de la provincia de Formosa pertenecen al grupo lingüístico guaycurú junto con los toba orientales, los llamados “toba bolivianos”, los mocovíes y los pilagá, con quienes mantienen una serie importante de semejanzas... more
Los toba del oeste de la provincia de Formosa pertenecen al grupo lingüístico guaycurú junto con los toba orientales, los llamados “toba bolivianos”, los mocovíes y los pilagá, con quienes mantienen una serie importante de semejanzas culturales –al punto de que estas semejanzas hacen que parezcan más próximos culturalmente a los pilagá que a otros conjuntos toba1. En este trabajo intentaremos explorar algunas facetas de la relación que se establece entre el liderazgo y la organización social; y, especialmente, lo concerniente a su vinculación con las relaciones de parentesco y la conformación de los grupos locales. Para ello analizaremos la interrelación entre el líder de una comunidad y su red parental, uno de los principales soportes de su legitimidad comunitaria –junto con las prácticas de reciprocidad y redistribución, las dotes oratorias y la capacidad de negociación diplomática.
Research Interests: Ethnohistory, Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, and 43 moreSocial Anthropology, Ethnography, Kinship (Anthropology), Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Indigenous Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Missionary History, History of Missions, Argentina, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mission Studies, Anthropology of Kinship, Archaeology of ethnicity, Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Etnohistoria, Amazonian Studies, Borders and Frontiers, Ethnopolitics, Interethnic Relations, Chaco, Antropología Política, Etnografía, Etnologia, South American Indians, Sociology and Anthropology, Missions, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Gran Chaco (Paraguay), Etnicidad, Relaciones interétnicas, Etnologia Indígena, Ethnic politics, Relações interétnicas, Gran Chaco Sudamericano, Gran Chaco, Nomadic/Indigenous People, and Interethnic Interaction
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Review of Chavarría, Rummenhöller & Moore (eds.), 'Madre de Dios: refugio de pueblos originarios', Lima: USAID, 2020.
Research Interests: Ethnohistory, Archaeology, Anthropology, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Sciences, and 15 moreEthnography, Race and Ethnicity, Amazonia, Amazonian Archaeology, Amazonian Languages, South American indigenous languages, Interethnic Relations, Etnografía, South American Indians, Antropología, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Historia del Perú, and Pueblos indígenas
Review of García Jordán (Anuario de Estudios Americanos 77-2, 2020, 770-774)
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, and 14 moreHistorical Anthropology, Social Sciences, Bolivian studies, Race and Ethnicity, Amazonia, Bolivia, Indigenous Peoples, Etnohistoria, Historia, Interethnic Relations, South American Indians, Antropología, Amazonian History, and Anthropology of Lowland South America
Review of Combès, Isabelle: Hijos del Pilcomayo. Los últimos tobas de Bolivia (Colección Scripta Autochtona 23), ILAMIS/Itinerarios/ Centro de Investigaciones históricas y antropológicas, 240 pp.
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, and 15 moreSocial Sciences, Ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Amazonia, Bolivia, Etnohistoria, Historia, Borders and Frontiers, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Gran Chaco Sudamericano, and Gran Chaco
Review of "Bonifacio Valentina, Del trabajo ajeno y vacas ariscas. Puerto Casado. Genealogías (1886-2000)", Journal de la Société des américanistes 106-1, 2020, pp. 257-260.
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, and 15 moreHistorical Anthropology, Ethnography, Race and Ethnicity, Oral history, Paraguay, Capitalism, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Cultural Anthropology, Etnohistoria, Etnologia, South American Indians, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Antropología histórica, Gran Chaco Sudamericano, and Gran Chaco
Review of Chirif, Alberto. Después del Caucho.
Lima: Lluvia Editores/CAAAP/IWGIA/
IBC, 2017, 452 pp.
Lima: Lluvia Editores/CAAAP/IWGIA/
IBC, 2017, 452 pp.
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and 15 moreEthnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Capitalism, Amazonia, Memory Studies, Ethnicity, Etnohistoria, Historia, South American Indians, Antropología, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Rubber, and Extractivismo
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, and 43 moreLatin American Studies, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Bolivian studies, Brazilian Studies, Brazilian History, Race and Ethnicity, Culture, Brazil, Amazonia, Bolivia, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Borderlands Studies, Frontier Studies, Historia Social, Etnohistoria, Historia, Amazonian Studies, Latin America, Borders and Frontiers, Antropología cultural, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Antropología, Ciencias Sociales, História, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, América Latina, Fronteras, Borders and Borderlands, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, Antropología histórica, Relaciones interétnicas, and Bolivian History
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, and 46 moreHistorical Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Bolivian studies, Economic Anthropology, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Capitalism, Amazonia, Ethnology, Bolivia, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Etnohistoria, Historia, Amazonian Studies, Antropología cultural, Etnologia, Amazônia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Antropología, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Mojos, Amazonian Cultures, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Rubber, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Amerindian languages, Etnologia Indígena, Antropología económica, Llanos de Moxos, Economical Anthropology, Bolivian History, História da Amazônia, Rubber boom (caucho), Extractivismo, Bolivia-provincia :Guarayos, and Antropologia
Research Interests: Religion, Comparative Religion, Ethnohistory, Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, and 48 moreIndigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, History of Religion, Religion and Politics, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History of Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Missiology and Mission Theology, Missionary History, Religious Conversion, Christian Missions, History of Missions, Argentina, Mission Studies, Protestantism, Ethnology, Anglicanism (Anglicanism), Archaeology of ethnicity, Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Anglican Church History, Etnohistoria, History and Theology of Missions, Chaco, Antropología cultural, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Antropología, Missional Church, Missions, Antropologia, Etnografia, Etnoecologia, Etnohistoria, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Missional Church Theology, Missionaries, Gran Chaco (Paraguay), Relaciones interétnicas, Anglicanism, Etnologia Indígena, Misiones, Historia de las misiones, Protestantismo, Gran Chaco Sudamericano, Gran Chaco, Anthropological History, and Anthropology of Religion
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, and 55 moreIndigenous Studies, Social Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean History, Latin American politics, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Bolivian studies, Economic Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Nationalism, Amazonia, Ethnology, Bolivia, Latin American History, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Frontier Studies, Latin American Economic History, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Historia Social, Etnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Colonization, Historia, Amazonian Studies, Latin America, Borders and Frontiers, Interethnic Relations, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Antropología, História, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Historia Cultural, Mojos, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Rubber, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, Extractive industries, Etnologia Indígena, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Llanos de Moxos, Bolivian History, Rubber boom (caucho), Beni, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, and Antropologia
Research Interests: History, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, and 39 moreIndigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean History, Colombia, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Indigenous Politics, Amazonia, Ethnology, Peru, Latin American History, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Anthropology of Peru, Latin American Economic History, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Colonial Latin American History, Amazonian Studies, Interethnic Relations, Antropología cultural, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Antropología, Ethnologie, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Pueblos Originarios, Etnología, Relaciones interétnicas, Pueblos indígenas, Extractive industries, Etnologia Indígena, Rubber boom (caucho), and Antropologia
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, and 35 moreIndigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Political Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, Capitalism, Amazonia, Peru, Latin American History, Work and Labour, Indigenous Peoples, Peruvian History, Ethnicity, Anthropology of Peru, Latin American Economic History, Anthropology of Capitalism, Etnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Amazonian Studies, Borders and Frontiers, Etnologia, South American Indians, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Rubber, Etnología, Pueblos indígenas, Extractivism, Etnologia Indígena, Roger Casement, Rubber boom (caucho), Extractivismo, and Putumayo
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, and 31 moreHistorical Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Social Anthropology, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, History of Capitalism, Capitalism, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Amazonia, Peru, Latin American History, Work and Labour, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Latin American Economic History, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Anthropology of Capitalism, Etnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Antropología cultural, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Antropología, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Rubber, Pueblos Originarios, and Pueblos indígenas
Research Interests: Ethnohistory, Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, and 22 moreSocial Anthropology, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Bolivian studies, Economic Anthropology, Race and Ethnicity, History of Capitalism, Capitalism, Amazonia, Bolivia, Latin American History, Work and Labour, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Latin American Economic History, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Anthropology of Capitalism, Etnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Amazonian History, Rubber, and Extractivismo
Research Interests: History, Ethnohistory, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, and 26 moreHistorical Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Bolivian studies, Economic Anthropology, History of Capitalism, Capitalism, Amazonia, Bolivia, Latin American History, Work and Labour, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Latin American Economic History, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Anthropology of Capitalism, Etnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Historia, Antropología cultural, Antropología Social, Antropología, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, and Rubber
Research Interests: Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies, Anthropology, Ethnolinguistics, Indigenous Studies, and 29 moreIndigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Languages and Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Indigenous education, Auto-ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Race and Ethnicity, Autoethnography, Applied Linguistics, Indigenous Knowledge, Amazonia, Amazonian Languages, Linguistic ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Anthropology, Native American Anthropology, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología, Critical Ethnography, Amazonian Ethnology, Ethnographic & autoethnographic research, Pueblos Originarios, Etnología, Etnologia Indígena, and Nomadic/Indigenous People
Research Interests: Ethnohistory, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, and 23 moreSocial Anthropology, Ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Autoethnography, Indigenous Knowledge, Brazil, Amazonia, Peru, Amazonian Languages, Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Anthropology, Collaborative Ethnography, Etnohistoria, Latin America, Antropología cultural, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Etnologia Indígena, and Panoan Languages
Research Interests: Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, and 47 moreEthnolinguistics, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Indigenous education, Auto-ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Indigenous Research Methodologies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Gender and Sexuality, Indigenous Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Autoethnography, Gender, Autobiography, Ethnolinguistic, Oral Traditions, Applied Linguistics, Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Amazonia, Ethnology, Bolivia, Amazonian Languages, Linguistic ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Ethnicity, Indigenous Communication Theory, Native American Anthropology, Collaborative Autoethnography, Antropología cultural, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Antropología, Ethnographic & autoethnographic research, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Pueblos Originarios, Amerindian languages, Amerindian linguistics, Etnología, Etnologia Indígena, Panoan, Nomadic/Indigenous People, and Antropologia
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Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, and 26 moreIndigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Sex and Gender, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Women, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnology, Feminism, Peru, Indigenous Peoples, Anthropology and Feminism, Ethnicity, Anthropology of Peru, Women and Culture, Etnologia, Antropología, Etnología, Etnologia Indígena, and Ethnic politics
From 1880 to 1920, the rubber industry opened up the Amazon basin —and particularly the Bolivian jungle— to international trade; therefore, for the first time, the inhospitable and hitherto marginal lands of regions such as Beni, Acre and... more
From 1880 to 1920, the rubber industry opened up the Amazon basin —and particularly the Bolivian jungle— to international trade; therefore, for the first time, the inhospitable and hitherto marginal lands of regions such as Beni, Acre and Pando gained both a strategic position on the republican chessboard and a more direct link to the global market. The productive boom prompted a systematic policy of exploration of the jungle territory, the opening of new communication routes and the consolidation of national borders. But, above all, the extractive vertigo also translated into a notorious demographic expansion: the Amazon jungle thus began to receive increasing waves of immigrants from other parts of Bolivia, as well as a growing mass of international workers dazzled by the almost instant fortune promised by the 'gold' that flowed from the rubber trees. However, documentary sources often present us with the canonical image of a hyper-masculinised jungle landscape and rubber industry: indeed, we know little or nothing of the Creole, European or Indigenous women involved in one way or another in the extractive endeavour. Women are usually represented as minor social actors: transparent, anonymous, almost invisible, forgotten, relegated or in any case mentioned laterally, obliquely or indirectly by the historical sources. This rule, however, is challenged by some notable exceptions. One of these is undoubtedly the testimony of the British Elisabeth 'Lizzie' Hessel, whose letters to her family in Europe provide the only first-person account that allows us to piece together the female experience in a Bolivian rubber plantation. Her observations, therefore, constitute an exceptional period document of the lights and shadows of the extractive boom.
Research Interests: History, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, and 15 moreHistorical Anthropology, Travel Writing, Women's Studies, Social Sciences, Ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Bolivian studies, Amazonia, Bolivia, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Feminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies, Etnohistoria, Women and Gender Studies, Anthropology of Lowland South America, and Extractive industries
Lo studio delle dinamiche estrattive nelle terre basse sudamericane ha generato nel corso degli ultimi anni un’ampia gamma di seminari, riflessioni e pubblicazioni. Tuttavia, restano ancora da esplorare le numerose tracce e gli immaginari... more
Lo studio delle dinamiche estrattive nelle terre basse sudamericane ha generato nel corso degli ultimi anni un’ampia gamma di seminari, riflessioni e pubblicazioni. Tuttavia, restano ancora da esplorare le numerose tracce e gli immaginari che l’estrazione del caucciù nel bacino idrografico amazzonico, le imprese forestali nel Chaco o gli zuccherifici nel nord dell’Argentina hanno lasciato nei paesaggi indigeni e creoli dei secoli XIX e XX. In nome dell’ordine e del progresso, la configurazione di questi scenari estrattivi - spesso ignorati, sconosciuti o situati ai margini della “civilizzazione” - ha influito sulla formazione delle identità nazionali e delle frontiere, sui processi di migrazione e urbanizzazione, i conflitti bellici, i progetti missionari e infine sull’articolazione con i mercati internazionali. Ha inoltre svolto un ruolo essenziale nel ridefinire le relazioni tra comunità indigene, creole e migranti. Date queste premesse, ci proponiamo dunque di suggerire delle risposte alle seguenti domande: Quali sono le rappresentazioni e gli immaginari che hanno sostenuto i governi nazionali, le autorità regionali, le forze armate, le missioni religiose o la stessa industria estrattiva? Quali trasformazioni tecnologiche, sanitarie e politiche ha implicato questo processo? Che influenza ha avuto sulla distribuzione etnica interna e inter-regionale? Attraverso una lettura diacronica, questo workshop si propone di suggerire una serie di risposte interdisciplinari a queste domande.
En los últimos años, el estudio de la dinámica extractiva en las Tierras Bajas Sudamericanas ha generado una amplia gama de encuentros, reflexiones y publicaciones. Sin embargo, resta aún por explorar múltiples aristas, facetas e imaginarios que la maquinaria extractiva del caucho en la cuenca amazónica, de las empresas forestales en el Chaco o de la industria azucarera en el norte argentino logró imprimir sobre los paisajes indígenas y criollos a lo largo de los siglos XIX y XX. Bajo las banderas virtualmente omnipresentes del orden y el progreso, la configuración de esos escenarios extractivos –muchas veces ignorados, desconocidos o situados en las márgenes de aquello entendido como 'civilización'–, entrecruzó variables como la formación de las identidades nacionales, la definición de las fronteras internas y externas, procesos de migración, urbanización y sedentarización, conflictos bélicos, la mediación de proyectos misionales de diversas denominaciones o hasta la incipiente pero gradual articulación económica de aquellos paisajes hasta entonces marginales con los mercados internacionales. En este contexto, sigue resultando de interés profundizar el análisis de los diferentes juegos de relaciones que esos espacios extractivos trabaron con las sociedades indígenas, criollas y migrantes, que a su vez terminaron impactando sobre la propia demografía de cada región: ¿Qué representaciones e imaginarios movilizaron a actores sociales colonizadores como los gobiernos nacionales, las autoridades regionales, las fuerzas armadas, las misiones religiosas o las mismas industrias extractivas? ¿Qué transformaciones tecnológicas, sanitarias, políticas, económicas y sociales supuso ese proceso? ¿Y qué influencia tuvo en la estabilización o transformación de los mapas étnicos regionales y, a la vez, sobre la propia concepción interna y externa de esos espacios? A partir de una lectura diacrónica que contemple las diversas metodologías de las ciencias sociales contemporáneas, este workshop apunta a ensayar una serie de respuestas interdisciplinarias a estos interrogantes.
En los últimos años, el estudio de la dinámica extractiva en las Tierras Bajas Sudamericanas ha generado una amplia gama de encuentros, reflexiones y publicaciones. Sin embargo, resta aún por explorar múltiples aristas, facetas e imaginarios que la maquinaria extractiva del caucho en la cuenca amazónica, de las empresas forestales en el Chaco o de la industria azucarera en el norte argentino logró imprimir sobre los paisajes indígenas y criollos a lo largo de los siglos XIX y XX. Bajo las banderas virtualmente omnipresentes del orden y el progreso, la configuración de esos escenarios extractivos –muchas veces ignorados, desconocidos o situados en las márgenes de aquello entendido como 'civilización'–, entrecruzó variables como la formación de las identidades nacionales, la definición de las fronteras internas y externas, procesos de migración, urbanización y sedentarización, conflictos bélicos, la mediación de proyectos misionales de diversas denominaciones o hasta la incipiente pero gradual articulación económica de aquellos paisajes hasta entonces marginales con los mercados internacionales. En este contexto, sigue resultando de interés profundizar el análisis de los diferentes juegos de relaciones que esos espacios extractivos trabaron con las sociedades indígenas, criollas y migrantes, que a su vez terminaron impactando sobre la propia demografía de cada región: ¿Qué representaciones e imaginarios movilizaron a actores sociales colonizadores como los gobiernos nacionales, las autoridades regionales, las fuerzas armadas, las misiones religiosas o las mismas industrias extractivas? ¿Qué transformaciones tecnológicas, sanitarias, políticas, económicas y sociales supuso ese proceso? ¿Y qué influencia tuvo en la estabilización o transformación de los mapas étnicos regionales y, a la vez, sobre la propia concepción interna y externa de esos espacios? A partir de una lectura diacrónica que contemple las diversas metodologías de las ciencias sociales contemporáneas, este workshop apunta a ensayar una serie de respuestas interdisciplinarias a estos interrogantes.
Research Interests: Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, and 14 moreIndigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Sciences, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Amazonia, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Indigenous Peoples, Ethnicity, Borders and Frontiers, South American Indians, Anthropology of Lowland South America, América Latina, Extractive industries, and Gran Chaco
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El CIHA (Centro de Investigaciones Históricas y Antropológicas, Museo de Historia de la Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno) y la Embajada de Suiza en Bolivia (SOLIDAR/Suiza) presentan el siguiente libro: Dos suizos, dos libros, una... more
El CIHA (Centro de Investigaciones Históricas y Antropológicas, Museo de Historia de la Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno) y la Embajada de Suiza en Bolivia (SOLIDAR/Suiza) presentan el siguiente libro: Dos suizos, dos libros, una única obsesión: la explotación del “oro negro” de la selva amazónica, en la época del auge cauchero en el Oriente de Bolivia. Con apenas unos meses de diferencia, Franz Ritz y Ernst Leutenegger trabajaron en la misma barraca gomera durante la primera década d..
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En 1925 llego al Chaco John Arnott (1907-1971), un joven anglicano de origen escoces que se enrola como misionero en la South American Missionary Society . Arnott paso los siguientes diecisiete anos de su vida en diversas estaciones... more
En 1925 llego al Chaco John Arnott (1907-1971), un joven anglicano de origen escoces que se enrola como misionero en la South American Missionary Society . Arnott paso los siguientes diecisiete anos de su vida en diversas estaciones anglicanas del Chaco argentino y boliviano, trabajando entre los wichis, los tobas, los pilagas y los guaranies. Arnott no solamente se dedico al trabajo evangelico sino que mostro una notable facilidad para aprender las lenguas indigenas y asimismo una inclinacion a desarrollar un conocimiento etnografico de esos grupos, plasmada en textos antropologicos, colecciones de cultura material o bien en su papel como fuente de consulta continua para autoridades academicas como Alfred Metraux, Jules Henry o Stig Ryden. Mediante el analisis de fuentes ineditas, proponemos que, lejos de forjarse en estos contactos academicos, la inclinacion etnografica de Arnott estuvo latente desde el mismo momento de su llegada a Sudamerica.
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UN ESCOCÉS EN EL CHACO John Arnott, misionero y etnógrafo de Lorena Córdoba Sólo un puñado de especialistas conocen hoy el nombre de John Arnott. La fe misionera del joven escocés anglicano lo llevó a pasar dos décadas en el Chaco entre... more
UN ESCOCÉS EN EL CHACO John Arnott, misionero y etnógrafo de Lorena Córdoba Sólo un puñado de especialistas conocen hoy el nombre de John Arnott. La fe misionera del joven escocés anglicano lo llevó a pasar dos décadas en el Chaco entre isoseños bolivianos, tobas, pilagás y wichís argentinos en los años 1920-1940, a aprender con asombrosa facilidad sus idiomas, a vivir en carne propia la mortífera Guerra del Chaco. Pero, más que todo, John Arnott se convirtió: se convirtió a la antropología, ..
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El estudio de la correspondencia entre los antropólogos Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) y Jules Henry (1904-1969) nos permite reconstruir la trastienda de la etnología chaqueña durante la década de 1930. Las cartas de ambos investigadores... more
El estudio de la correspondencia entre los antropólogos Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) y Jules Henry (1904-1969) nos permite reconstruir la trastienda de la etnología chaqueña durante la década de 1930. Las cartas de ambos investigadores entre sí, como también aquellas otras dirigidas a diversas personalidades de su ámbito profesional (Ruth Benedict, Paul Rivet, John Arnott, Enrique Palavecino, etc.), ponen de manifiesto la operación cotidiana de las redes académicas, la maquinaria logística del trabajo de campo, las opiniones descarnadas de Métraux sobre la academia o el mundo cultural argentino, las reacciones adversas de Henry ante el consejo de su interlocutor o bien la visión del antropólogo suizo sobre los misioneros anglicanos, los indígenas chaqueños y las instituciones científicas internacionales, revelando matices inesperados de la «cultura y personalidad» de ambos antropólogos.
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L'article descriu la visita del viatger alemany Heinz Rox - Schulz (1921-2004) als Chacobos de l'Amazonia boliviana a 1959, i la col·leccio fotografica que va resultar d'aquest viatge . Discuteix despres l'experiencia de... more
L'article descriu la visita del viatger alemany Heinz Rox - Schulz (1921-2004) als Chacobos de l'Amazonia boliviana a 1959, i la col·leccio fotografica que va resultar d'aquest viatge . Discuteix despres l'experiencia de devolucio de les imatges als Chacobos el 2013 , reflexionant breument sobre les percepcions Chacobo de la representacio grafica i la seva influencia en la dinamica contemporania de definicio social de la historia , la cultura i la identitat etnica