Description: Further DetailsTitle: Frontier IntimaciesCondition: NewSubtitle: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan ChacoISBN-10: 1477321470EAN: 9781477321478ISBN: 9781477321478Publisher: University of Texas PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/20/2020Description: Until the 1960s, the Ayoreo people of Paraguay's 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 20mmAuthor: Paola CanovaGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesItem Weight: 1220gRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Frontier Intimacies
Title: Frontier Intimacies
Subtitle: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco
ISBN-10: 1477321470
EAN: 9781477321478
ISBN: 9781477321478
Release Date: 10/20/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Frontier Intimacies : Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 43.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Paola Canova
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
