Rubble : The Afterlife of Destruction

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Based on ethnographic research in the foothills of the Argentine Andes, Gastón R. Gordillo reveals the spatial, historical, and affective ruptures embodied in debris. For the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material ma...

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Main Author: Gordillo, Gastón R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sydamerikas indianer.
Fornlämningar.
Kollektivt minne.
Ruiner.
Trümmer
Ruine
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Ruins, Modern.
Rubble.
Indians of South America > Government relations.
Collective memory.
Antiquities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Memoire collective > Gran Chaco.
Ruines modernes > Gran Chaco.
Collective memory > Gran Chaco.
Indians of South America > Gran Chaco > Government relations.
Rubble > Gran Chaco.
Ruins, Modern > Gran Chaco.
Sydamerika > Gran Chaco.
Gran Chaco
Argentinien
South America > Gran Chaco.
Gran Chaco > Antiquities.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Constellations; Part One. Ghosts of Indians; Chapter One. A Haunted Frontier; Chapter Two. On the Edge of the Void; Part Two. Lost Cities; The Destruction of Space; Chapter Three. Land of Curses and Miracles; Chapter Four. The Ruins of Ruins; Part Three. Residues of a Dream World; Treks across Fields of Rubble; Chapter Five. Ships Stranded in the Forest; Chapter Six. Bringing a Destroyed Place Back to Life; Chapter Seven. Railroads to Nowhere; Part Four. The Debris of Violence; Bright Objects; Chapter Eight. Topographies of Oblivion.
  • Chapter Nine. Piles of BonesChapter Ten. The Return of the Indians; Conclusion: We Aren't Afraid of Ruins; Notes; References; Index.

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