Laura Pensa

I obtained my degree of Licenciada in Anthropological Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires in 2015. I’m interested in the study of travelers’ chronicles describing the Argentinean, Bolivian and Paraguayan Chaco, where I have also developed fieldwork experience with contemporary indigenous groups. In particular, I attempt to understand both the creation of the Chaco region as a colonial construct, as well as the role played in that process by the Indigenous Peoples that inhabited it. My goal is to track in the Latin American literary corpus the discursive formations that have historically accompanied toba-qom indigenous groups from colonial times to the present day.