ANT-2215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Uncontacted Peoples, Clastres, Ethnocide
Chapter two: lost center of world
Garden of Eden
Jesuit records from 1711
Political economy of salt
• Echoi- salt region
Missionary accounts from 1886
• What happens to the image of the native between 1711 and 1886?
• Pg. 62 title of ladies: respect
• Reversion to uncontacted
• Names and diversity of “places”
Songs- heard it before; different tribe in fact enemy tribe; they taught it to us; could
possibly have not always been at war
Writing alternative histories- raises bad memories never come set; who tells stories=
dominant groups; lot of stories on freedom
HISTORY OF FRAGMENTS:
Snip bits of conversations over not days not months but YEARS
Violence wasn’t always their history
Who is lucas talking to?
How is this different than the work that historicans would do?
What does fieldwork look like (pg 54-56)
How is history layered by the conditions of the present?
• Because the conjnone only want to hear about the time when we killed each other
(pg. 60)
In the path of salt economy ( not as nice description)
Uncontacted savages
Wood extraction:
War of triple alliance (1864-1870)
• Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
• Kills 75% if Paraguay’s population
• Immigration from Europ
• Disover of oil by 1919
• Mennonite colonies by 1927
• Chaco war 1932-1935
How do these impact the regioni of the Gran Chaco?
• Struggles with territory
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Document Summary
Political economy of salt: echoi- salt region. Missionary accounts from 1886: what happens to the image of the native between 1711 and 1886, pg. 62 title of ladies: respect: reversion to uncontacted, names and diversity of places . Songs- heard it before; different tribe in fact enemy tribe; they taught it to us; could possibly have not always been at war. Writing alternative histories- raises bad memories never come set; who tells stories= dominant groups; lot of stories on freedom. Snip bits of conversations over not days not months but years. How is history layered by the conditions of the present: because the conjnone only want to hear about the time when we killed each other (pg. In the path of salt economy ( not as nice description) War of triple alliance (1864-1870: argentina, brazil, uruguay, kills 75% if paraguay"s population, disover of oil by 1919, mennonite colonies by 1927, chaco war 1932-1935.
