Paola Canova

Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Set in a Mennonite colony of Paraguay's 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781477321485
• ISBN-10: 1477321489
• Artikelnr.: 59822763

Autorenporträt

Paola Canova is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: An Economy of Intimate Transformations
Chapter 1. Drawing Boundaries
Chapter 2. Liminal Masculinities
Chapter 3. Labor Exclusion
Chapter 4. Commodifying Sex
Chapter 5. Consuming Desire
Chapter 6. Negotiating Inclusion
Conclusion: Toward an Intimate Frontier
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index