Lucas Bessire is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He is the producer and director of the documentary film From Honey to Ashes.

"This is an exceptional book whose compelling narrative fully immerses the reader in the social and spatial geography of the northern Gran Chaco. The book's greatest strength is Bessire's careful conceptual and ethnographic decomposition of the terms that have long been used to dehumanize the Ayoreo people in popular and scholarly imaginings. Original and unsettling, this ethnography shows that the anthropological deconstructions of conventional notions of 'culture' and 'indigeneity' haven't gone too far-in fact, they haven't gone far enough." (Gaston Gordillo, author of Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction)"

Lucas Bessire is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He is the producer and director of the documentary film From Honey to Ashes.

"This is an exceptional book whose compelling narrative fully immerses the reader in the social and spatial geography of the northern Gran Chaco. The book's greatest strength is Bessire's careful conceptual and ethnographic decomposition of the terms that have long been used to dehumanize the Ayoreo people in popular and scholarly imaginings. Original and unsettling, this ethnography shows that the anthropological deconstructions of conventional notions of 'culture' and 'indigeneity' haven't gone too far-in fact, they haven't gone far enough." (Gaston Gordillo, author of Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction)"