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OverviewThe first book to explore the deaths of explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew from an Indigenous perspective. In 1882, the celebrated French explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew were killed by Indigenous people in the Bolivian Chaco, a fiercely contested region on the border between Bolivia, Argentina, and Paraguay. The event sparked an international uproar. The scene of the crime was embroiled in clashes among various Indigenous peoples, rubber tappers, and missionaries. Official investigators sent from France and competing newspapers ended up mired in a morass of equivocal, ambiguous, false, and contradictory information. To make sense of this event, Isabelle Combès is the first researcher to consult the local archives and to include the perspective of Indigenous peoples. In search of who killed Crevaux and why, Combès unearths the power struggles and social imaginaries behind the incident and its aftermath. Readers will find not only an engrossing story in these pages but also an exemplar of historical inquiry that questions the very nature of truth-telling. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Isabelle Combès , Francis Grandhomme , Diego Villar , Nora ScottPublisher: HAU Society Of Ethnographic Theory Imprint: HAU Books Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781912808564ISBN 10: 1912808560 Pages: 150 Publication Date: 23 May 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsPreface by Francis Grandhomme Introduction: The Seventh Circle (in the Chaco), or Murder Considered as a Method by Diego Villar Chapter 1. Reopening the File Chapter 2. Chronicle of an Announced Death Chapter 3. Searching for the Remains of the Crevaux Mission Chapter 4. Imposture and Amnesia Chapter 5. Unresolved Questions Chapter 6. Beyond the Massacre Chapter 7. Faceless Killers Epilogue References Selected Bibliography NotesReviewsAuthor InformationIsabelle Combès is an associate researcher with the Institut Français d’Études Andines and coordinator of the Centro de Investigaciones Históricas y Antropológicas of the History Museum of the’Université Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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