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Liability and Environment

Private and Public Law Aspects of Civil Liability for Environmental Harm in an International Context

By: Lucas Bergkamp

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Liability and Environment

Private and Public Law Aspects of Civil Liability for Environmental Harm in an International Context

By: Lucas Bergkamp

Liability and Environment analyzes the role of law, in particular civil liability, in controlling environmental pollution and risk. In modern environmental policy, liability has become a popular instrument. In this book, Prof. Bergkamp takes a fresh look at civil liability for environmental harm in an inter- and transnational context. Over the last decade, industry's liability exposure for environmental harm has expanded significantly. At the international, EC, and national level proposals for onerous strict environmental liability regimes are pending. The `polluter pays principle', which is an articulation of the `cost internalization' theory in the environmental area, is believed to justify such liability regimes. Applying an instrumental approach to legal instruments, Prof. Bergkamp aims to redefine the role of liability in the heavily regulated environmental area. He shows that liability for environmental harm is not justified by the polluter pays principle, is an uncertain and unreliable instrument for achieving prevention, results in an inefficient insurance scheme, and plays a dubious role in adjusting activity levels. Based on an analysis of the basic characteristics of alternative legal instruments, Prof. Bergkamp concludes that civil liability should play a more modest, limited role in an environmental law system dominated by public law. Where deterrence is not the objective, first party insurance, compensation funds, or other public law regimes should be preferred over liability rules. In addition to civil liability of private parties, Liability and Environment discusses State liability under international, EC, and national law. Under international law, breach of a primary obligation triggers a State's liability. Prof. Bergkamp argues that this rule should be applied also to liability of private parties. In the environmental area, a business' primary obligations are spelled out in detailed permit conditions, regulations, and statutes. According to Prof. Bergkamp, only if a primary obligation is breached, a private person should be liable for environmental harm. The system that Bergkamp advocates is an objective fault liability regime, in which public environmental law defines the standard of care for both government and industry. "In rebuilding our civil liability system, we should keep in mind that what is good for industry should be good for everyone (or it is not good for anyone), we should keep in mind that what is good for private parties should be good for the state (or it is not good for either). In rebuilding our civil liability system, the international law of State responsibility, which is unpolluted by risk spreading and activity level considerations, will guide us a long way." This book is aimed at advanced law students, academic scholars, and practitioners. In addition, it will be of interest to policy and legislative analysts, legislators, and government officials. Professor Bergkamp's book cannot be described as "solving" the problems of legal and regulatory control of environmental harm, whether within a nation or internationally. As suggested before, however, the very idea of a "solution" is illusory. All legal and regulatory regimes around the world are today and will remain for the future in a state of perpetually continuing development. The virtue of this fine book is that it moves the process of that development forward by a very substantial measure. from the Foreword by George L. Priest.

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900447904X

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Radicals, Rhetoric, and the War

The University of Nevada in the Wake of Kent State

By: B. Lucas

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Radicals, Rhetoric, and the War

The University of Nevada in the Wake of Kent State

By: B. Lucas

Radicals, Rhetoric, and the War documents the Kent State antiwar protest at the height of the Vietnam era. Informed by thirty years of oral history interviews, the book details perspectives and voices from students, faculty, and administrators.

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Springer

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1403983151

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9781403983152

America's Lone Star Constitution

How Supreme Court Cases from Texas Shape the Nation

By: Lucas A. Powe

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America's Lone Star Constitution

How Supreme Court Cases from Texas Shape the Nation

By: Lucas A. Powe

The all-white primary -- After the Voting Rights Act -- From discrimination to affirmative action -- Railroads -- Oil -- School finance -- Immigration -- Freedom of speech and the press -- Freedom of and from religion -- Abortion -- Prosecuting consensual adult sex -- Capital punishment -- Tom DeLay's mid-decade redistricting

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Univ of California Press

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0520297806

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Hearth and Home

Women and the Art of Open Hearth Cooking

By: Fiona Lucas

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Hearth and Home

Women and the Art of Open Hearth Cooking

By: Fiona Lucas

Explore the rich history of women's work and the art of cooking over an open hearth in historic Canadian kitchens. Today the fireplace with its crackling logs is a romantic icon representing the heart of the home, but not so long ago its role was much more than symbolic. A hearth or fireplace was an essential first fixture in Canadian homes and its warmth sustained the family in many ways. Whether in a longhouse, a fishing shack, a log cabin, a manor home, or on a thriving farm, the kitchen was the main workplace of Canadian women within family centred households for generations. Its central feature is the focal point of Hearth and Home, a social history that evokes the sights, smells, and tastes of historic kitchens. This book tells the story of the women who worked back-breaking hours tending the fire and using its energy with skill and resourceful creativity to nourish their families or feed a hungry fort. Fiona Lucas, culinary historian and practiced hearth cook, synthesizes the shared experience of the family cook across decades and cultures, along the way introducing readers to fascinating dishes such as the hedgehog pudding and tools such as the salamander and the spider. The text is illustrated with photographs from historic sites including Black Creek Pioneer Village, Louisbourg, Kings Landing, Upper Canada Village, and many others. This is a book that will appeal to readers of Canadian history, and to anyone who has puzzled over the now unusual kitchen tools once common in 19th-century homes.

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James Lorimer & Company

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1550289217

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The People Elsewhere

By: Lucas Stewart

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The People Elsewhere

By: Lucas Stewart

Over Red Ruby cigarettes, Sayar gave me a copy of an A to Z biography of Burmese-language writers he had edited, and my thoughts drifted to writers elsewhere . . .’ In a five year journey all across Myanmar, Lucas Stewart travels from Yangon in the south to the northern limits of Kachin State in search of the literary luminaries of the country’s recent past. He bonds with censored and jailed writers, poets, publishers and booksellers, recording their stories of heritage and resilience. In his conversations with students at an Aung San Suu Kyi rally or sharing stories with a Kayah farmer in his village house, the long-suppressed literatures and languages of minorities such as the Chin, Kachin, Shan and others shine through.

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Penguin Group Australia

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176014360X

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9781760143602

European Community Law for the New Economy

By: Lucas Bergkamp

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European Community Law for the New Economy

By: Lucas Bergkamp

The European Community (EC) has embarked on an ambitious legislative program for the new economy. In European Community Law for the New Economy professor Lucas Bergkamp analyzes the EC's current and proposed new economy legislation. The new economy, according to Bergkamp, is not only the internet, the information society, and biotechnology, but also a different kind of "old" economy, a different kind of corporate governance, and a different kind of government. Accordingly, in addition to the EC e-commerce, data protection, and biotechnology legislation, this book discusses also the grand principles of EC policy making (such as sustainable development and the precautionary principle), the theory of corporate social responsibility, and EC government reform. With its wide-ranging, insightful, and engaging analyses, and devoid of obliquity, EC Law for the New Economy is a unique publication. This book must be read by everybody who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the effects of EC legislation, the root causes of regulatory failures, and possible solutions to these problems. It is of interest to lawyers, politicians, policy makers, government officials, political scientists, advanced students and autodidacts. Lucas Bergkamp is a lawyer at the Brussels Bar and Professor of International Liability Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam - The Netherlands.

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Intersentia nv

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9050952291

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9789050952293

Fields of Authority

Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015

By: Jack Lucas

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Fields of Authority

Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015

By: Jack Lucas

Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics – from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities – we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body. These “ABCs” of local government – library boards, school boards, transit authorities, and many others – provide vital public services, spend large sums of public money, and raise important questions about local democratic accountability. In Fields of Authority, Jack Lucas provides the first systematic exploration of local special purpose bodies in Ontario. Drawing on extensive research in local and provincial archives, Lucas uses a “policy fields” approach to explain how these local bodies in Ontario have developed from the nineteenth century to the present. A lively and accessible study, Fields of Authority will appeal to readers interested in Canadian political history, urban politics, and urban public policy.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487510373

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9781487510374

Life in Space

Astrobiology for Everyone

By: Lucas John Mix

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Life in Space

Astrobiology for Everyone

By: Lucas John Mix

Life is a property of the universe. We may not know how it began or where else it exists, but we have come to know a great deal about how it relates to stars, planets, and the larger cosmos. In clear and compelling terms, this book shows how the emerging field of astrobiology investigates the nature of life in space. How did life begin? How common is it? Where do we fit in? These are the important questions that astrobiology seeks to answer. A truly interdisciplinary endeavor, astrobiology looks at the evidence of astronomy, biology, physics, chemistry, and a host of other fields. A grand narrative emerges, beginning from the smallest, most common particles yet producing amazing complexity and order. Lucas Mix is a congenial guide through the depths of astrobiology, exploring how the presence of planets around other stars affects our knowledge of our own; how water, carbon, and electrons interact to form life as we know it; and how the processes of evolution and entropy act upon every living thing. This book also reveals that our understanding and our context are deeply intertwined. It shows how much astrobiology can tell us about who we are—as a planet, as a species, and as individuals.

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Harvard University Press

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0674033213

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9780674033214

Deadham Hard A Romance Book III

By: Lucas Malet

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Deadham Hard A Romance Book III

By: Lucas Malet

Deadham Hard: A Romance Book III" by Lucas Malet is a captivating tale intertwined with themes of romance, mystery, and societal issues. Mary St. Leger Kingsley Harrison's paintings, written beneath the pseudonym Lucas Malet, introduces readers to the fictitious village of Deadham Hard and its colorful forged of characters. The plot concentrates around the lives of the citizens of Deadham Hard, delving into their complex relationships, non-public challenges, and the impact of cultural conventions on their futures. Against the backdrop of the English geographical region, Malet intricately constructs a story that transcends mere romantic elements, delving into the complexities of human feelings and the restrictions of societal expectations. As Book I of the "Romance" collection, the radical sets the degree for a larger narrative arc, promising readers an immersive adventure into the lives of the characters and the evolution in their interconnected fates. Lucas Malet's prose, characterized by an eager know-how of human psychology and a mastery of descriptive storytelling, makes "Deadham Hard" a literary artwork that captivates readers with its wealthy narrative tapestry, compelling characters, and the promise of deeper revelations in subsequent volumes.

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9361150626

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9789361150623

Cyanobacteria

An Economic Perspective

By: Naveen K. Sharma,Ashawani K. Rai,Lucas J. Stal

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Cyanobacteria

An Economic Perspective

By: Naveen K. Sharma,Ashawani K. Rai,Lucas J. Stal

Written by leading experts in the field, Cyanobacteria: An Economic Perspective is a comprehensive edited volume covering all areas of an important field and its application to energy, medicine and agriculture. Issues related to environment, food and energy have presented serious challenge to the stability of nation-states. Increasing global population, dwindling agriculture and industrial production, and inequitable distribution of resources and technologies have further aggravated the problem. The burden placed by increasing population on environment and especially on agricultural productivity is phenomenal. To provide food and fuel to such a massive population, it becomes imperative to find new ways and means to increase the production giving due consideration to biosphere’s ability to regenerate resources and provide ecological services. Cyanobacteria are environment friendly resource for commercial production of active biochemicals, drugs and future energy (biodiesel, bioethanol and hydrogen). Topics on isolation, identification and classification of cyanobacteria are discussed, as well as further sections on: summarizing a range of useful products synthesized by cyanobacteria, ecological services provided by cyanobacteria including their harmful effect in water bodies and associated flora and fauna. Chapter on tools, techniques, and patents also focus on the economic importance of the group. This book also provides an insight for future perspectives in each particular field and an extensive bibliography. This book will be a highly useful resource for students, researchers and professionals in academics in the life sciences including microbiology and biotechnology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118769554

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Arbitration of Trust Disputes

By: Clover Alcolea, Lucas

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Arbitration of Trust Disputes

By: Clover Alcolea, Lucas

There is a dire need for a comprehensive pedagogical resource both on diverse approaches to teaching sports economics and the use of sports to teach broader principles of economic concepts. This book does exactly that. The contributions from leading scholars and teachers in both fields will help all instructors looking to raise their teaching game.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1802201327

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9781802201321

One-Click Buy: May Harlequin Presents

By: Susan Napier,Catherine Spencer,Chantelle Shaw,Annie West,Cathy Williams,Trish Wylie,Kim Lawrence,Jennie Lucas,Michelle Reid,Lucy Gordon,Jane Porter

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One-Click Buy: May Harlequin Presents

By: Susan Napier,Catherine Spencer,Chantelle Shaw,Annie West,Cathy Williams,Trish Wylie,Kim Lawrence,Jennie Lucas,Michelle Reid,Lucy Gordon,Jane Porter

One convenient download. One bargain price. Get all May Harlequin Presents with one click! The drama is fierce and compelling, the sexual tension explosive...and the romance delectably satisfying. Harlequin Presents has it all...marriage of convenience, red-hot revenge, forced betrothal, passion among the rich and powerful...played against the romantic background of Mediterranean settings. Get twelve new scorching tales of passion and romance with one simple click of the mouse. Bundle includes: The Markonos Bride by Michelle Reid, Secret Baby, Convenient Wife by Kim Lawrence, King of the Desert, Captive Bride by Jane Porter, The Italian's Passionate Revenge by Lucy Gordon, Di Cesare's Pregnant Mistress by Chantelle Shaw, The Spaniard's Defiant Virgin by Jenni Lucas, Accidental Mistress by Susan Napier, Her Bedroom Surrender by Trish Wylie, The Greek's Forbidden Bride by Cathy Williams, The Greek Tycoon's Unexpected Wife by Annie West, The Greek Tycoon's Virgin Mistress by Chantelle Shaw and The Giannakis Bride by Catherine Spencer.

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1426817487

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Sensing the Sacred

Recovering a Mystagogical Vision of Knowledge and Salvation

By: Hanna J. Lucas

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Sensing the Sacred

Recovering a Mystagogical Vision of Knowledge and Salvation

By: Hanna J. Lucas

This book offers a theological vision of learning informed by the mystagogical homilies of Ambrose of Milan, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, and Theodore of Mopsuestia. In dialogue with these four mystagogues, Hanna Lucas walks through the rites and liturgy surrounding baptism and the eucharist in order to establish a theological epistemology that sees knowledge as part of the “capacitation” of our nature for heavenly mysteries and union with God. The sacraments of initiation teach us that even the mundane aspects of knowledge, including the rudiments of matter and sensation, fit into a larger divine gift of capacitation. This book offers a holistic and integrated theory of knowledge that envisions one all-encompassing divine pedagogy that orients toward union with God. This union is experienced fully in the eschaton, but it breaks into time through the sacraments of the church, and it echoes down through the ordinary modes of knowing we encounter in daily life. Mundane knowledge beckons the knower to become capable of a sublime intelligence: to become capable of union with the divine. This integrative, unitive, and eschatologically oriented vision of knowledge stands in stark contrast to modern and postmodern epistemologies. Sensing the Sacred positions mystagogy as a timely remedy for the “incapacitations” that modernity offers us.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666758051

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A Theory of De Facto States

Classical Realism and Exceptional Polities

By: Lucas Knotter

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A Theory of De Facto States

Classical Realism and Exceptional Polities

By: Lucas Knotter

A Theory of De Facto States offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of de facto states — political communities that manifest forms of statehood in international politics but lack international legal recognition — zooming in on two prominent examples, Somaliland and Kosovo. Employing a thorough understanding of classical realist theories of international relations, this book provides a fresh critique of the common ways in which existing research tends to identify the ostensible state features of these communities. In contrast to the prevalent portrayals of such features in terms of international legal, discursive, and/or everyday logics, this book argues that de facto states can be most fundamentally characterised as exceptional polities in international relations. Showcasing how the statehood and sovereignty of de facto states is based in international political crises, this book concludes that these entities function as recurring disruptions of any supposed international political order. A Theory of De Facto States will therefore be of interest to researchers of secession, de facto statehood, and International Relations theory alike.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003822738

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9781003822738

Houses Divided

Evangelical Schisms and the Crisis of the Union in Missouri

By: Lucas Volkman

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Houses Divided

Evangelical Schisms and the Crisis of the Union in Missouri

By: Lucas Volkman

Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage. Volkman examines such fractures in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches of the slaveholding border state of Missouri. He maintains that congregational and local denominational ruptures before, during, and after the Civil War were central to the crisis of the Union in that state from 1837 to 1876. The schisms were interlinked religious, legal, constitutional, and political developments rife with implications for the transformation of evangelicalism and the United States from the late 1830s to the end of Reconstruction. The evangelical disruptions in Missouri were grounded in divergent moral and political understandings of slavery, abolitionism, secession, and disloyalty. Publicly articulated by factional litigation over church property and a combative evangelical print culture, the schisms were complicated by the race, class, and gender dynamics that marked the contending interests of white middle-class women and men, rural church-goers, and African American congregants. These ruptures forged antagonistic northern and southern evangelical worldviews that increased antebellum sectarian strife and violence, energized the notorious guerilla conflict that gripped Missouri through the Civil War, and fueled post-war vigilantism between opponents and proponents of emancipation. The schisms produced the interrelated religious, legal and constitutional controversies that shaped pro-and anti-slavery evangelical contention before 1861, wartime Radical rule, and the rise and fall of Reconstruction.

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Oxford University Press

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0190248335

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9780190248338

Cyberphobia

Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet

By: Edward Lucas

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Cyberphobia

Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet

By: Edward Lucas

Cybercrime is increasingly in the news on both an individual and national level--from the stolen identities and personal information of millions of Americans to the infiltration of our national security networks allowing access to both economic and trade secrets. In Cyberphobia, Edward Lucas unpacks this shadowy but metastasizing problem confronting our security. The uncomfortable truth is that we do not take cybersecurity seriously enough. When it comes to the internet, it might as well be the Wild West. Standards of securing our computers and other internet-connected technology are diverse, but just like the rules of the road meant to protect both individual drivers and everyone else driving alongside them, weak cybersecurity on the computers and internet systems near us put everyone at risk. Lucas sounds a necessary alarm on behalf of cybersecurity and prescribes immediate and bold solutions to this grave threat.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1632862263

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Behold the Black Caiman

A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life

By: Lucas Bessire

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Behold the Black Caiman

A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life

By: Lucas Bessire

Behold the Black Caiman "by anthropologist Lucas Bessire is a haunting ethnography based on a decade of fieldwork among a group of Ayoreo-speaking tribes in the Gran Chaco, the largest forested area in South America after the Amazon. Bessire shows that, far from being untouched noble savages, most of the Ayoreo tribes are struggling to survive on the margins of industrialized society as cattle ranches encroach on the dense wilderness that they once called home. As one of the poorest and most marginalized indigenous groups in the region, the Ayoreo endure unfathomable levels of violence and discrimination. Faced with such brutality, the Ayoreo believe that survival within modernity requires a radical transformation, including the abandonment of nearly all of the practices that count as authorized native culture in Latin America. Bessire argues that their attitude is not evidence of contamination or loss--as many anthropologists, NGOs, and state representatives would have it--but is rather a profound moral response to their desperate situation. The book thus aims to revise the anthropology and history of Ayoreo-speaking people, and indigenous people in general, who have long been seen as the ultimate primitives outside the State, market, and history. Written in the tradition of classic texts such as"Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians"and"Tristes Tropiques," the book tells a tragic story of catastrophic violence that is urgently relevant to identity politics both within Latin America and beyond.

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University of Chicago Press

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022617557X

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