c. Latin American Ethnography and Post Colonial Critique

My work is located both within contemporary Latin Americanism and as a contribution to specific debates on indigeneity in Argentina and the Chaco. Many analyses of social tensions in Latin America point to colonial violence as a foundational force shaping both the production of differential subjectivities and their subalternization (De la Cadena 2000, Weismantel 2001, Beverley 1998) and the structuration of these relations with the consolidation of the state (Nelson 1999), as well as generating a new spatiality (Taussig 1987). My study presents a case in which some of these effects are avoided or at least deflected by means of embodied movement.

My project also builds upon ethnographic work in the Chaco region that has shown how the indigenous population was produced as an “other” representing an obstacle to regional processes of nation-building (Wright 2003, Carrasco 2000), while at the same time generating and re-inventing of culturally specific practices (Tola 2004). To the literature that sees how place making in the Chaco is intertwined with processes of memory construction (Gordillo 2004), gendered violence (Gomez 2007), and partial autonomy (Salamanca 2006), I add a consideration of the shifting ways in which alterity is embodied and recreated through differential spatial trajectories.
Indigenous in urban rural connections In the soviet contexts the formation of indigenous Siberians intellectuals in Leningrad, was a highly valued by the communities, which were willing to confront the efforts to send s few students per year to the city (Grant 1995:88). The maintenance of indigenous links to the rural areas through the establishment of networks that organize the distribution of country food to the urban relatives or former neighbours, the visits form relatives form the country and the visits of people in the city back to their communities are just some of the dimensions in which connection between indigenous rural villages and people living in urban areas has been observed among first nations in Canada and Alsaka (Fogel Chance, Peters, Kishagami). Likewise in Australia poner Clifford While we can see a general tendency In this sense the way the toba use space presents