Frontier intimacies : Ayoreo women and the sexual economy of the Paraguayan Chaco /
This book is an ethnography of the Ayoreo of the Chaco region of Bolivia-Paraguay, among the last groups of South America's indigenous people to be "contacted." The book focuses on the sexual interactions between young Ayoreo women and the local Mennonite men and analyzes how their di...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | This book is an ethnography of the Ayoreo of the Chaco region of Bolivia-Paraguay, among the last groups of South America's indigenous people to be "contacted." The book focuses on the sexual interactions between young Ayoreo women and the local Mennonite men and analyzes how their disparate ways of understanding sexual interactions affect the lives of these women and their families, entertaining questions of agency, violence, and the clash of culturally imposed conceptual schemes. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781477321478 1477321470 9781477321485 1477321489 |