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The Dialectic of Strangement: Memory and the Production of Places of Wealth and Poverty in the Argentinean Chaco

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The Dialectic of Strangement: Memory and the Production of Places of Wealth and Poverty in the Argentinean Chaco
Author(s)Gordillo, Gaston
AbstractThe article examines how the concepts of wealth and poverty are linked with perceptions and recollection of place, using the Toba of Argentina as an illustrative example. The idea that wealth is something alien and unachievable to the Toba is explored through social memory and perceptions of their own conditions as those of necessity rather than extravagance.
IssueNo1
Pages3-31
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceCultural Anthropology
VolumeNo17
PubDateFebruary 2002
ISBN_ISSN0886-7356


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