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Ethics, Politics, and Host Space: A Comparative Case Study from the South American Chaco

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2011

Kathleen Lowrey
Kathleen Lowrey*
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Anthropology, University of Alberta
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kblowrey@gmail.com
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This essay compares two communities of common origin that now dwell in separate rural lowland South American settings, one in the Bolivian Chaco and the other in the Paraguayan Chaco (maps 1 and 2). South America's Gran Chaco is sparsely populated, averaging one person per three square kilometers (Censo Nacional Indígena [Paraguay], 2002). Nevertheless, the present essay takes as its analytic-theoretical point of departure a phrase invoked by Michael Warner in his 1999 book on queer publics in New York City: “Urban space is always a host space” (1999: 190).

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 882 - 913
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