Description: Frontier Intimacies by Paola Canova Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description 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. 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. Details ISBN 1477321489 ISBN-13 9781477321485 Title Frontier Intimacies Author Paola Canova Format Paperback Year 2020 Pages 208 Publisher University of Texas Press GE_Item_ID:161866586; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9781477321485
Book Title: Frontier Intimacies
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Frontier Intimacies : Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.1 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Paola Canova
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
