Marcela Mendoza
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3619253 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marcela Mendoza |
| PRENOMES | Marcela |
| SOBRENOME | Mendoza |
| ASSINATURA | MENDOZA M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8163-8986 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Análisis lingüístico y sociocultural de qadachaqayaĝac ‘nuestra forma de vivir’ en el territorio qomlé’c
In this paper, we study –from linguistic and sociocultural perspectives –the spatial positioning and social interactions of the Qomlajepi/Tobas of western Formosa, who were displaced by overflowing of the Pilcomayo-Bañado La Estrella fluvial system on February 2018. The case study analyses an oral story in Qomle’c/Toba (translated into Spanish) and its visual representation, both describing the spatial relocation of the Qomlajepi. We focus on the…
Fort Bella Esperanza
In the 1860s, the Republic of Bolivia was consolidating its institutions and defining its southern border on the Chaco plains. The Republics of Argentina and Paraguay had territorial claims to the same area, for the most part still under control of the Indigenous Peoples. In 1863, aiming at preventing the advance of Argentine ranchers and to expand cattle ranching for the Bolivian fronterizos, the state and residents of Tarija financed the constr…
Resilience and Recovery in the Dry Chaco
The tropical forests, shrublands, and savannas of the South American Dry Chaco are fire-prone ecosystems. Humans have occupied this region for thousands of years, raising the question of how they coped with this recurrent problem. On this point, Indigenous oral traditions are known to encode a broad range of local ecological knowledge and to be capable of preserving this knowledge for centuries. Although the traditions of the Chaco's earliest hum…
Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information in a mid-size city in Argentina
We examined the self-reported family trees of 288 adult Argentines from a mid-size city near Buenos Aires to evaluate how intergenerational transmission of ancestry information matched (or not) anonymized estimates of continental-level genetic ancestry. Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information was inferred from the content of the anonymized family trees, and continental-level ancestries were inferred from genomic information collect…
The cattle-ranching economy in the Bolivian Chaco during the 1800s
The Bolivian Chaco on the margins of Pilcomayo River was a contested area during the 1800s. Tobas and other Indigenous Peoples boldly resisted the state's occupation of their territories, keeping the frontier unstable for decades. I argue that Bolivian settlers gradually occupied the pastures along the river using violence, encouraged by state policies, and supported by army officers stationed in forts. Local merchants, Franciscan missionaries, a…
Crossing at y/our own peril
Biocultural approaches in anthropology originated from a desire to dissolve the nature/culture divide that is entrenched in the discipline. Whereas biocultural approaches were born under the umbrella of medical anthropology, by the late 1990s, biology-centered approaches to bioculturalism had been mostly taken up by human biologists in biological anthropology. It was at this point that biology-inclined approaches began to gel into an informal int…
Grammatical replication
In this paper we suggest that linguistic features can show traces of the frequency and intensity of social interactions between indigenous peoples. We focus on peoples of the alluvial fan of the Pilcomayo River (South American Chaco), and analyze first-person non-singular verbal encoding in their languages. The corpus is composed of (a) data obtained during fieldwork, (b) descriptive grammars, and (c) published reports by missionaries, army offic…
Ethnobotanical Knowledge Encoded in Weenhayek Oral Tradition
Stories that reference plants occur throughout Indigenous oral traditions. It is widely recognized among local and academic knowledge holders that such stories store and transmit valuable ethnobotanical knowledge. However, there has been little detailed investigation of the quantity and kinds of information conveyed or the ways in which this information is encoded in oral texts. In this paper, we explore in detail the nature of this transmitted e…
Los tobas de Bolivia
Nuestro estudio está centrado en los tobas de Bolivia. Describimos un modelo estacional de uso del ambiente empleado por cazadores-recolectores de las sabanas semiáridas del chaco boreal en el cual grupos demográficamente pequeños pescaban en los ríos y cursos de agua temporarios y plantaban en humedales, desplazándose durante otros períodos del ciclo anual entre campamentos de caza y recolección en los campos y lagunas interiores. Este modelo de…
The Bolivian Toba (Guaicuruan) Expansion in Northern Gran Chaco, 1550-1850
The Bolivian Tobas in northern Gran Chaco were mobile hunter-gatherers organized in bands. They called themselves qomleʔk, and spoke a distinctive variation of Guaicuruan language. For three hundred years, coalitions of Toba braves successfully rejected Jesuit missionaries, alternatively fought and aligned with neighboring groups, and resisted the advance of colonial settlers. However, little is known about the remote past of these resilient peop…
Toba (Guaicuruan) hunter-gatherers in the Bolivian Chaco
Toba hunter-gatherers inhabited the dry savannas in the Manso plains of the Bolivian Chaco since precolonial times. Early on, Spaniards learned that these peoples (speakers of a language now classified as Guaicuruan) were trekking extensive ranges off the Andean foothills around Upper Pilcomayo River, but their social organisation was unknown, in part because Tobas (with mobility and organisational strength) were able to hold the expansion of the…
Coalitional Play Fighting and the Evolution of Coalitional Intergroup Aggression
Hunter-Gatherers’ Self-Governance
The Integral Law for Aborigines (426/84) was the first legal instrument in Argentina systematically addressing indigenous peoples’ rights. It was modeled on the Paraguayan Law for Indigenous Communities (901/81). Both granted collective property rights. I discuss Article 9 of Decree 574/85 in Law 426, requiring that former hunter-gatherer bands would form civil associations, like those in the non-profit sector. The policymakers later amended the …
Mexicanos in Oregon
This important volume sheds new light on the stories and lives of mexicanos in Oregon: why migrants come to Oregon fields, construction sites, and warehouses, what their experiences are when they settle here, and how they adapt to life in the United States. Drawing from the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology, gender and cultural studies, building on the work of earlier scholars, and providing new and original research, Gonzalez-Berry…
Immigration and Educational Inequality
More foreign-born people live in the United States now than ever before in the country's history. Immigrants from Latin America, primarily from Mexico, constitute the largest proportion of all immigrants. Schools are the main vehicle, sometimes the only one, to integrate immigrant families and their children into U.S. society. This article, argues, however that broader social inequities affecting Latino immigrants infiltrate the practices of the …
Landscapes of devils
Western Toba Messianism and Resistance to Colonization, 1915-1918
The Western Toba and other hunter-gatherers of the South American Gran Chaco managed to retain a certain degree of political autonomy well into the nineteenth century. Between 1915 and 1918, Western Toba, Wichí, and Pilagá warriors formed alliances to expel Argentine and Bolivian settlers from their traditional lands. The few authors who recorded this"rebellion" failed to mention that the warriors' active resistance to colonization was rooted in …
Range area and seasonal campsites of Toba bands in western Chaco, Argentina
Toba bands (co-residential groups of related families) have trekked the land at the intersection of the Pilcomayo River with the Tropic of Capricorn (Formosa Province, Argentina) since at least the 1840s. Previously, the Toba had been self-organised, mobile hunter-gatherers focused primarily on the exploitation of animals and terrestrial plants in the water-depressed microenvironments of western Chaco. My discussion of the bands' range areas and …
Band Mobility and Leadership Among the Western Toba Hunter-Gatherers of Gran Chaco in Argentina
List of Tables and Figures ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 Hunter-Gatherer Studies 7 3 Hunter-Gatherers of the Gran Chaco 19 4 Research Methods 31 5 Research Setting 41 6 Toba, Soldiers, and Criollo Settlers from 1880 to 1920 57 7 Tobas, Criollos, and Missionaries from 1920 to 1995 77 8 Toba Bands, Present Location, and Relations with Neighboring Groups 95 9 Range Size and Mobility of Bands 115 10 Toba Leadership 135 11 Conc…
Immigration and Educational Inequality
More foreign-born people live in the United States now than ever before in the country's history. Immigrants from Latin America, primarily from Mexico, constitute the largest proportion of all immigrants. Schools are the main vehicle, sometimes the only one, to integrate immigrant families and their children into U.S. society. This article, argues, however that broader social inequities affecting Latino immigrants infiltrate the practices of the …
Crossing at y/our own peril
Biocultural approaches in anthropology originated from a desire to dissolve the nature/culture divide that is entrenched in the discipline. Whereas biocultural approaches were born under the umbrella of medical anthropology, by the late 1990s, biology-centered approaches to bioculturalism had been mostly taken up by human biologists in biological anthropology. It was at this point that biology-inclined approaches began to gel into an informal int…
Range area and seasonal campsites of Toba bands in western Chaco, Argentina
Toba bands (co-residential groups of related families) have trekked the land at the intersection of the Pilcomayo River with the Tropic of Capricorn (Formosa Province, Argentina) since at least the 1840s. Previously, the Toba had been self-organised, mobile hunter-gatherers focused primarily on the exploitation of animals and terrestrial plants in the water-depressed microenvironments of western Chaco. My discussion of the bands' range areas and …
Coalitional Play Fighting and the Evolution of Coalitional Intergroup Aggression
Western Toba Messianism and Resistance to Colonization, 1915-1918
The Western Toba and other hunter-gatherers of the South American Gran Chaco managed to retain a certain degree of political autonomy well into the nineteenth century. Between 1915 and 1918, Western Toba, Wichí, and Pilagá warriors formed alliances to expel Argentine and Bolivian settlers from their traditional lands. The few authors who recorded this"rebellion" failed to mention that the warriors' active resistance to colonization was rooted in …
Los tobas de Bolivia
Nuestro estudio está centrado en los tobas de Bolivia. Describimos un modelo estacional de uso del ambiente empleado por cazadores-recolectores de las sabanas semiáridas del chaco boreal en el cual grupos demográficamente pequeños pescaban en los ríos y cursos de agua temporarios y plantaban en humedales, desplazándose durante otros períodos del ciclo anual entre campamentos de caza y recolección en los campos y lagunas interiores. Este modelo de…
The Bolivian Toba (Guaicuruan) Expansion in Northern Gran Chaco, 1550-1850
The Bolivian Tobas in northern Gran Chaco were mobile hunter-gatherers organized in bands. They called themselves qomleʔk, and spoke a distinctive variation of Guaicuruan language. For three hundred years, coalitions of Toba braves successfully rejected Jesuit missionaries, alternatively fought and aligned with neighboring groups, and resisted the advance of colonial settlers. However, little is known about the remote past of these resilient peop…
Range area and seasonal campsites of Toba bands in western Chaco, Argentina
Toba bands (co-residential groups of related families) have trekked the land at the intersection of the Pilcomayo River with the Tropic of Capricorn (Formosa Province, Argentina) since at least the 1840s. Previously, the Toba had been self-organised, mobile hunter-gatherers focused primarily on the exploitation of animals and terrestrial plants in the water-depressed microenvironments of western Chaco. My discussion of the bands' range areas and …
Western Toba Messianism and Resistance to Colonization, 1915-1918
The Western Toba and other hunter-gatherers of the South American Gran Chaco managed to retain a certain degree of political autonomy well into the nineteenth century. Between 1915 and 1918, Western Toba, Wichí, and Pilagá warriors formed alliances to expel Argentine and Bolivian settlers from their traditional lands. The few authors who recorded this"rebellion" failed to mention that the warriors' active resistance to colonization was rooted in …
Landscapes of devils
Mexicanos in Oregon
This important volume sheds new light on the stories and lives of mexicanos in Oregon: why migrants come to Oregon fields, construction sites, and warehouses, what their experiences are when they settle here, and how they adapt to life in the United States. Drawing from the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology, gender and cultural studies, building on the work of earlier scholars, and providing new and original research, Gonzalez-Berry…
Immigration and Educational Inequality
More foreign-born people live in the United States now than ever before in the country's history. Immigrants from Latin America, primarily from Mexico, constitute the largest proportion of all immigrants. Schools are the main vehicle, sometimes the only one, to integrate immigrant families and their children into U.S. society. This article, argues, however that broader social inequities affecting Latino immigrants infiltrate the practices of the …
Hunter-Gatherers’ Self-Governance
The Integral Law for Aborigines (426/84) was the first legal instrument in Argentina systematically addressing indigenous peoples’ rights. It was modeled on the Paraguayan Law for Indigenous Communities (901/81). Both granted collective property rights. I discuss Article 9 of Decree 574/85 in Law 426, requiring that former hunter-gatherer bands would form civil associations, like those in the non-profit sector. The policymakers later amended the …
Toba (Guaicuruan) hunter-gatherers in the Bolivian Chaco
Toba hunter-gatherers inhabited the dry savannas in the Manso plains of the Bolivian Chaco since precolonial times. Early on, Spaniards learned that these peoples (speakers of a language now classified as Guaicuruan) were trekking extensive ranges off the Andean foothills around Upper Pilcomayo River, but their social organisation was unknown, in part because Tobas (with mobility and organisational strength) were able to hold the expansion of the…
Coalitional Play Fighting and the Evolution of Coalitional Intergroup Aggression
The Bolivian Toba (Guaicuruan) Expansion in Northern Gran Chaco, 1550-1850
The Bolivian Tobas in northern Gran Chaco were mobile hunter-gatherers organized in bands. They called themselves qomleʔk, and spoke a distinctive variation of Guaicuruan language. For three hundred years, coalitions of Toba braves successfully rejected Jesuit missionaries, alternatively fought and aligned with neighboring groups, and resisted the advance of colonial settlers. However, little is known about the remote past of these resilient peop…
Ethnobotanical Knowledge Encoded in Weenhayek Oral Tradition
Stories that reference plants occur throughout Indigenous oral traditions. It is widely recognized among local and academic knowledge holders that such stories store and transmit valuable ethnobotanical knowledge. However, there has been little detailed investigation of the quantity and kinds of information conveyed or the ways in which this information is encoded in oral texts. In this paper, we explore in detail the nature of this transmitted e…
Los tobas de Bolivia
Nuestro estudio está centrado en los tobas de Bolivia. Describimos un modelo estacional de uso del ambiente empleado por cazadores-recolectores de las sabanas semiáridas del chaco boreal en el cual grupos demográficamente pequeños pescaban en los ríos y cursos de agua temporarios y plantaban en humedales, desplazándose durante otros períodos del ciclo anual entre campamentos de caza y recolección en los campos y lagunas interiores. Este modelo de…
Grammatical replication
In this paper we suggest that linguistic features can show traces of the frequency and intensity of social interactions between indigenous peoples. We focus on peoples of the alluvial fan of the Pilcomayo River (South American Chaco), and analyze first-person non-singular verbal encoding in their languages. The corpus is composed of (a) data obtained during fieldwork, (b) descriptive grammars, and (c) published reports by missionaries, army offic…
The cattle-ranching economy in the Bolivian Chaco during the 1800s
The Bolivian Chaco on the margins of Pilcomayo River was a contested area during the 1800s. Tobas and other Indigenous Peoples boldly resisted the state's occupation of their territories, keeping the frontier unstable for decades. I argue that Bolivian settlers gradually occupied the pastures along the river using violence, encouraged by state policies, and supported by army officers stationed in forts. Local merchants, Franciscan missionaries, a…
Crossing at y/our own peril
Biocultural approaches in anthropology originated from a desire to dissolve the nature/culture divide that is entrenched in the discipline. Whereas biocultural approaches were born under the umbrella of medical anthropology, by the late 1990s, biology-centered approaches to bioculturalism had been mostly taken up by human biologists in biological anthropology. It was at this point that biology-inclined approaches began to gel into an informal int…
Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information in a mid-size city in Argentina
We examined the self-reported family trees of 288 adult Argentines from a mid-size city near Buenos Aires to evaluate how intergenerational transmission of ancestry information matched (or not) anonymized estimates of continental-level genetic ancestry. Intergenerational transmission of ancestry information was inferred from the content of the anonymized family trees, and continental-level ancestries were inferred from genomic information collect…
Band Mobility and Leadership Among the Western Toba Hunter-Gatherers of Gran Chaco in Argentina
List of Tables and Figures ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 Hunter-Gatherer Studies 7 3 Hunter-Gatherers of the Gran Chaco 19 4 Research Methods 31 5 Research Setting 41 6 Toba, Soldiers, and Criollo Settlers from 1880 to 1920 57 7 Tobas, Criollos, and Missionaries from 1920 to 1995 77 8 Toba Bands, Present Location, and Relations with Neighboring Groups 95 9 Range Size and Mobility of Bands 115 10 Toba Leadership 135 11 Conc…
Resilience and Recovery in the Dry Chaco
The tropical forests, shrublands, and savannas of the South American Dry Chaco are fire-prone ecosystems. Humans have occupied this region for thousands of years, raising the question of how they coped with this recurrent problem. On this point, Indigenous oral traditions are known to encode a broad range of local ecological knowledge and to be capable of preserving this knowledge for centuries. Although the traditions of the Chaco's earliest hum…
Análisis lingüístico y sociocultural de qadachaqayaĝac ‘nuestra forma de vivir’ en el territorio qomlé’c
In this paper, we study –from linguistic and sociocultural perspectives –the spatial positioning and social interactions of the Qomlajepi/Tobas of western Formosa, who were displaced by overflowing of the Pilcomayo-Bañado La Estrella fluvial system on February 2018. The case study analyses an oral story in Qomle’c/Toba (translated into Spanish) and its visual representation, both describing the spatial relocation of the Qomlajepi. We focus on the…
Fort Bella Esperanza
In the 1860s, the Republic of Bolivia was consolidating its institutions and defining its southern border on the Chaco plains. The Republics of Argentina and Paraguay had territorial claims to the same area, for the most part still under control of the Indigenous Peoples. In 1863, aiming at preventing the advance of Argentine ranchers and to expand cattle ranching for the Bolivian fronterizos, the state and residents of Tarija financed the constr…
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