Landscapes of Devils : Duke University Press : 9780822333913 : 0822333910 : 15 Jan 2005 : Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina&;s Gran Chaco region. In the early twentieth century, the Toba were defeated by the Argentinean army, incorporated into the seasonal labor force of distant sugar plantations, and proselytized by British Anglicans. Gastón R. Gordillo reveals how the Toba&;s memory of these processes is embedded in their experience of &;the bush&; that dominates the Chaco landscape. As Gordillo explains, the bush is the result of social, cultural, and political processes that intertwine this place with other geographies. Labor exploitation, state violence, encroachment by settlers, and the demands of Anglican missionaries all transformed this land. The Toba&;s lives have been torn between alienating work in sugar plantations and relative freedom in the bush, between moments of domination