Mario Blaser

Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethnography of the storytelling practices through which the indigenous Yshiro of Paraguay struggle to produce an alternative reality/world to the so-far dominant type of globalization that is 'modernity writ large.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345305
• ISBN-10: 0822345307
• Artikelnr.: 30366155

Autorenporträt

Mario Blaser is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. He is a co-editor of In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects, and Globalization.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Series viii
Map List ix
Preface xi
Introduction. Globalization and the Struggle for Worlds and Knowledges
Otherwise 1
1. Puruhle/Genealogies
1. Laissez-Faire Progress: Invisibilizing the Yrmo 41
2. State-Driven Development: Stabilizing Modernity 63
3. Sustainable Development: Modernity Unravels? 80
2. Porowo/Moralities
4. Enacting the Yrmo 105
5. Taming Differences 126
3. Azle/Translations
6. Translating Neoliberalism 149
7. A World in which Many Worlds (Are Forced to) Fit 171
8. Becoming the Yshiro Nation 188
9. Reality Check 209
Conclusion. Eisheraho/Renewal 227
Acronyms 241
Notes 243
Glossary 257
References 259
Index 283