Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina s Gran Chaco region. In the early twentieth century, the Toba were defeated by the Argentinean army, incorporated into the seasonal labor force of distant sugar plantations, and proselytized by British Anglicans. Gaston R. Gordillo reveals how the Toba s memory of these processes is embedded in their experience of the bush that dominates the Chaco landscape.

As Gordillo explains, the bush is the result of social, cultural, and political processes that...

Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina s Gran Chaco region. In the early twentieth century, the Toba were defeated by the Argentinean army, incorporated into the seasonal labor force of distant sugar plantations, and proselytized by British Anglicans. Gaston R. Gordillo reveals how the Toba s memory of these processes is embedded in their experience of the bush that dominates the Chaco landscape.

As Gordillo explains, the bush is the result of social, cultural, and political processes that...