Lost World, Found Paradise: Place, Identity and Production in Gran Sabana, Venezuela ; Mundo perdido, paraíso encontrado: lugar, identidad y producción en la Gran Sabana, Venezuela

The bases of a type of production enmeshed in the capitalist system emerged in GranSabana during the twentieth century, but still nowadays a part of its ancestral Pemoninhabitants maintain a notably autonomous economy of subsistence. In order to explainthis situation, in this article I identify how exoticising narratives of place and identityconstructed around the Gran Sabana and its ancestral inhabitants have contributed to consolidate a reductionist polarisation that approaches all social issues in theregion through an analytical distinction between ‘indigenous’ and ‘non-indigenous’spheres.... Mehr ...