Written in 1978, this book is arguably the first and only systematic approach to the indigenous social organization of South American Gran Chaco. Geographically speaking the Chaco is a semi-arid central South American plain, some one million square kilometers in size, that since the end of XIXth century encompasses portions of northern Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. From its first edition this book has been used by those who have studied Chaco indigenous peoples, and several investigations on the area have followed its conclusions on ethnographic sociology. The research is based both on...
Written in 1978, this book is arguably the first and only systematic approach to the indigenous social organization of South American Gran Chaco. Geog...
