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After Abundance: Indigenous Lives on the Gran Chaco’s Extractive Frontier

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The Human Economy

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After Abundance

Indigenous Lives on the Gran Chaco’s Extractive Frontier

Agustin Diz

232 pages, 16 illus., bibliog.

ISBN  978-1-80768-101-2 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (March 2027)

eISBN 978-1-80768-102-9 eBook


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This is an excellent book which delves into how a small community of indigenous peoples, in the frontier of Argentina, deal with an extractive economy." — Silvia Hirsch

Description

Drawing on historical and contemporary research in Indigenous Guaraní settlements in northwest Argentina, this book examines the booms and busts of commodities central to the regional and global economy, including maize, sugar, oil and gas, and soy. It traces the circulation of ideas, capital, and labour that made extraction in the Gran Chaco possible and explores how people experience and respond to extractive abundance. Moving between individual perspectives, historical accounts, and unfolding events, it shows how household life intersects with global corporate rationalities and how commodity cycles shape experiences of democracy, citizenship, and life on the economic periphery.

Agustin Diz is a political and economic anthropologist who specializes in Latin America. After holding academic positions at the LSE and at the University of Edinburgh, he relocated to Spain where teaches at the Instituto Empresa.

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyDevelopment StudiesSustainable Development Goals
Area: Latin America and the Caribbean


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