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.
General
| Imprint: |
University Of Texas Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2020 |
| First published: |
2020 |
| Authors: |
Paola Canova
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
208 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4773-2148-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-4773-2148-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781477321485 |
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