Lorena Cordoba

Lorena Cordoba is an Argentinian anthropologist, full-time researcher at CONICET (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research) and currently a Marie Curie Fellow (European Union) at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, Italy. She specializes in the ethnology and ethnohistory of the Bolivian Amazon and has carried out fieldwork among the Chacobo (Pano, Bolivian Amazonia), analyzing issues such as gender relations, kinship and social organization, and the historical relationship between the rubber boom and indigenous societies.

The project

The Invisible Women: Nameless and Forgotten Stories of the Rubber Boom (Bolivian Amazonia, 19-20th centuries).

Hosting institution: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle | IHEAL-CREDA

Selective bibliography

• 2021 La misión de la máquina: técnica, extractivismo y conversión en las tierras bajas sudamericanas. N. Richard, Z. Franceschi & L. Córdoba (eds.). Bononia University Press/ CNRS, Bologna. https://buponline.com/prodotto/la-mision-de-la-maquina/
• 2021 “Sin indios no hay industria del caucho”: los indígenas amazónicos frente a la colonización gomera” (A. Guiteras Mombiola & L. Córdoba), Un amor desenfrenado por la libertad.  Antología de la historia política de Bolivia (1825-2020), L. Cajías & I. Velázquez-Castellanos (Coord)., tomo 1 (1825-1952),KAS, La Paz: 471-515. https://www.kas.de/es/web/bolivien/einzeltitel/-/content/un-amor-desenfrenado-por-la-libertad-4
• 2019 “White Blood, Black Gold: The Commodification of Wild Rubber in the Bolivian Amazon, 1870-1920”, Environmental History (Oxford University Press),  24, Oxford : 695-702. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1093/envhis/emz033
• 2015  “Barbarie en plural: percepciones del indígena en el auge cauchero”, Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 101 (1-2), Paris : 172-201. https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/14384
• 2015  Dos suizos en la selva. Historias del auge cauchero en el Oriente boliviano, L. Córdoba (ed.), SOLIDAR/Suiza-CIHA, Santa Cruz de la Sierra. https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01955053/document