New Books by SALSA Members

Theorizing relations in Indigenous South America

THEORIZING RELATIONS IN INDIGENOUS SOUTH AMERICA ed. by M. González, P. di Giminiani & G. Bacchiddu (2022)

Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America Edited by Marcelo González Gálvez, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani & Giovanna Bacchiddu Berghahn, 2022 Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units,...

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Reimagining the Gran Chaco

REIMAGINING THE GRAN CHACO, ed. by S. Hirsch, P. Canova & M. Biocca (2021)

Reimagining the Gran Chaco Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America Edited by Silva Hirsch, Paula Canova & Mercedes Bicoca University Press of Florida, 2021 Reimagining the Gran Chaco traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a vast and richly biodiverse ecoregion at...

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Amazonian cosmopolitans

AMAZONIAN COSMOPOLITANS, by S. Oakdale (2022)

Amazonian Cosmopolitans Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects By Suzanne Oakdale University of Nebraska Press, 2022 Amazonian Cosmopolitans focuses on the autobiographical accounts of two Brazilian Indigenous leaders, Prepori and Sabino, Kawaiwete men whose lives spanned the twentieth century, when Amazonia increasingly became the...

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