Lucas Bessire
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English
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"Finalist for the National Book Award" "Finalist for the Outstanding Western Book Award, Center for the Study of the American West" "Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History" "Kansas Notable Book of the Year" "Winner of the Bonney MacDonald Book Award, Center for the Study of the American West" "Winner of the Victor Turner Prize, Society for Humanistic Anthropology" Lucas Bessire is associate professor of...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 2004, one of the world's last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral life in the dwindling thorn forests of northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers' bulldozers. Behold the Black Caiman is Lucas Bessire's intimate chronicle of the journey of this small group of Ayoreo people, the terrifying new world they now face, and the precarious lives they are piecing together against the backdrop of soul-collecting missionaries, humanitarian...