Paola Canova

Paola Canova, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco.

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Frontier Intimacies

Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco

University of Texas Press

Set in a Mennonite colony of Paraguay's remote Chaco region, this book tracks the lives and contested practices of indigenous Ayoreo women who commodify their sexuality, exposing the fractured workings of frontier capitalism.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Reimagining the Gran Chaco

Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America

University of Florida Press

This volume traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a vast and richly biodiverse ecoregion in South America, illuminating how the region’s many indigenous groups are negotiating these transformations in their own terms.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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