Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Frontier Intimacies by Paola Canova Set in a Mennonite colony of Paraguays 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Until the 1960s, the Ayoreo people of Paraguays Chaco region had remained uncontacted by the world. But as development encroached on their territory, the Ayoreo began to experience rapid cultural change. Paola Canova looks at one aspect of this change in Frontier Intimacies: the sexual practices of Ayoreo women, specifically the curajodie, or single women who exchange sex for money or material goods with non-Ayoreo men, often Mennonite settlers.Weaving personal anecdotes into her extensive research, Canova shows how the advancement of economic and missionary frontiers has reconfigured gender roles, sexual ethics, and notions of desire in the region. Ayoreo women, she shows, have reappropriated their sexual practices, approaching intimate liaisons on their own terms and seeing the involvement of money not as morally problematic but as constitutive of sexual encounters. By using their sexuality to construct an intimate frontier operating according to their own logics, Canova reveals, Ayoreo women expose the fractured workings of frontier capitalism in spaces of rapid transformation. Inviting broader examination of the ways in which contemporary frontier economies are constructed and experienced, Frontier Intimacies brings a captivating new perspective to the economic development of the Chaco region. Author Biography Paola Canova is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Table of Contents PrefaceIntroduction: An Economy of Intimate TransformationsChapter 1. Drawing BoundariesChapter 2. Liminal MasculinitiesChapter 3. Labor ExclusionChapter 4. Commodifying SexChapter 5. Consuming DesireChapter 6. Negotiating InclusionConclusion: Toward an Intimate FrontierAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex Review [A] highly engaging and original work...Paola Canova offers significant new insights in her beautifully detailed account of situated lives and transgressive, racialized desires in one of the continents most remote and legendary regions. We come away with admiration for the profound ways in which indigenous peoples, and specifically women, are negotiating the brute force of capitalist commodification of bodies and things in this complex, masculine liminal space of the South American Chaco. * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Pleasant to read...Frontier Intimacies is an excellent ethnography relevant not only for those specialized in Ayoreo or the Chaco but also for those interested in frontier dynamics, with its intertwinement of violence and agency, exploitation and conspicuous consumption, affective bonds and racialized desires. * Journal of Anthropological Research *This is undoubtedly an ethnography of great significance and impact, both for the field data collected and for the authors analysis, which allow us to explore one of the many ways in which indigenous modernities are constructed in a context of sharp economic and sociocultural change. Above all, Canovas book helps to place current indigenous women, with their practices, their experiences, and their discontents, on the center of the stage. * Journal de la Société des américanistes *This book is an invaluable contribution to knowledge of how extremely marginalised communities develop strategies to function in spaces in which, despite the power of the dominant culture, they develop and perform their own ways to understand gender, labour and sexual intimacy challenging the moral assumptions and economic rules of the dominant society. * Bulletin of Latin American Research * Long Description Until the 1960s, the Ayoreo people of Paraguays Chaco region had remained uncontacted by the world. But as development encroached on their territory, the Ayoreo began to experience rapid cultural change. Paola Canova looks at one aspect of this change in Frontier Intimacies : the sexual practices of Ayoreo women, specifically the curajodie , or single women who exchange sex for money or material goods with non-Ayoreo men, often Mennonite settlers. Weaving personal anecdotes into her extensive research, Canova shows how the advancement of economic and missionary frontiers has reconfigured gender roles, sexual ethics, and notions of desire in the region. Ayoreo women, she shows, have reappropriated their sexual practices, approaching intimate liaisons on their own terms and seeing the involvement of money not as morally problematic but as constitutive of sexual encounters. By using their sexuality to construct an intimate frontier operating according to their own logics, Canova reveals, Ayoreo women expose the fractured workings of frontier capitalism in spaces of rapid transformation. Inviting broader examination of the ways in which contemporary frontier economies are constructed and experienced, Frontier Intimacies brings a captivating new perspective to the economic development of the Chaco region. Review Quote This is undoubtedly an ethnography of great significance and impact, both for the field data collected and for the authors analysis, which allow us to explore one of the many ways in which indigenous modernities are constructed in a context of sharp economic and sociocultural change. Above all, Canovas book helps to place current indigenous women, with their practices, their experiences, and their discontents, on the center of the stage. Details ISBN1477321489 Author Paola Canova Short Title Frontier Intimacies Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1477321489 ISBN-13 9781477321485 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-10-20 Subtitle Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco Pages 208 DEWEY 989.22 UK Release Date 2020-10-20 Imprint University of Texas Press Place of Publication Austin, TX Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2020-10-20 NZ Release Date 2020-10-20 US Release Date 2020-10-20 Publisher University of Texas Press Alternative 9781477321478 Audience Professional & Vocational Illustrations 13 b&w photos We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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ISBN-13: 9781477321485
Book Title: Frontier Intimacies
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Width: 152 mm
Author: Paola Canova
Publication Name: Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Anthropology
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
