Gran Chaco – Benno Glauser

Being indigenous: the concept of indigeneity, a conversation with two Ayoreo leaders

published in “The Politics of Indigeneity”, ed. by Sita Venkateswar and Emma Hughes, Zed Books, London /New York, 2011, ISBN 978 1 78032 121 9/120 2.

Benno Glauser – bennoglauser@gmail.com

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Introduction

The following exploration is based on several interviews with the two Ayoreo leaders Mateo Sobode Chiquenoi and Aquino Aquiraoi Picanerai. The interviews[1] took place between January 2008 and October 2009.

Mateo is between fifty-five and sixty years old …

8th of March, 2010, in the North of the Gran Chaco

published in This text was originally written at the request of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), Uruguay, for publication in its bulletin, for the Día Mundial de la Mujer, 8th of March 2010 . Since, it has been reproduced in different media and languages, sometimes with its title changed.

Benno Glauser, 2010 – bennoglauser@gmail.com

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Living should not have to be a struggle against deadly forces. The life of the indigenous Ayoreo women and men living in isolation (without contact with our civilization) did not used to be a struggle; it was a life lived …

What the Spirit told Ibegua

The vision belongs to the Ayoreo indigenous peoples. Ibegua, the women the vision came to gave explicit permission to make it known also among non-Ayoreo.

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A preliminary remark

When reading this vision, we are listening to the voice of the collective body of an indigenous people, the Ayoreo, at a moment when this body communicates itself to its members by way of the …

The Chaco – Toward a long-term sustainability: conceptual contributions

Benno Glauser – bennoglauser@gmail.com

Keynote address at the International Seminar on Sustainable Development of the Gran Chaco, Bad Boll, Germany, January 1996. Published in: Desarrollo Agroforestal y Comunidad Campesina, Salta (Argentina), Junio/ Julio 1996, ISSN 0328-1590 (Spanish); also in: Nachhaltige Entwicklung des Gran Chaco, Evang. Akademie, Bad Boll (Alemania), Nov. 1996, ISSN 0170-5970 (German).

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The Gran Chaco is a living organism. Inhabitants, nature, courses of water, climate, the sky. Let’s imagine it like a person. It is an organism, which in the course of a few decades suffered considerable transformation. Changes, yet more incisive, …