Caste and Class in the Chaco.

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  • Author(s): Browne, Le Lieu
  • Source:
    Nation. 9/21/1970, Vol. 211 Issue 8, p239-242. 4p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      TRAVEL; INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); WHITE people; MISSIONARIES; CITIZENSHIP; SPANISH language
    • Subject Terms:
      GRAN Chaco
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on the incident in which a Vietnamese woman Le Lieu Browne and her American husband Malcolm Browne visits to the Chaco region of Argentina and describes the Indian ways of life and discrimination among various classes. They visit Tartagal, a town on the Bolivian border; Hickinann, a small village where Indians and whites lived in a relatively integrated society, and Misión Chaquefla, an encampment for Indians established in 1914 by Rev. David Leake, the first Anglican missionary in the Chaco. Indians are deprived of the privileges of citizenship in this area. Knowledge of Spanish can be grounds for suspecting an Indian woman of being a prostitute.