Paola Canova
Paola Canova, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco.
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Frontier Intimacies
Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco
By Paola Canova
University of Texas Press
Set in a Mennonite colony of Paraguay's remote Chaco region, this book tracks the lives and contested practices of indigenous Ayoreo women who commodify their sexuality, exposing the fractured workings of frontier capitalism.
- Copyright year: 2020
Reimagining the Gran Chaco
Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America
University of Florida Press
This volume traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a vast and richly biodiverse ecoregion in South America, illuminating how the region’s many indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms.
- Copyright year: 2021
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