This article explores the settlement of Russian Mennonites on the Paraguayan Chaco frontier during the Chaco War years. These colonists engaged in a range of seemingly contradictory place-making practices – from the agro-environmental and the political to the spiritual and the cultural – that served to solidify their tenuous claim to an unfamiliar and highly contested landscape. Ideas of food security – seen in terms of both production and consumption – linked these diverse exercises. In the Paraguayan Chaco, these former Russian wheat farmers experimented with new crops and foodways. Although pacifists, they supplied the Paraguayan military efforts even as they also sent their crops to Nazi Germany. Finally, as an ethnic group practising endogamy and seeking isolation from their neighbours, they unexpectedly initiated a campaign to evangelise the Chaco's indigenous population centred, in part, on reforming the latter's ‘deficient’ diet.

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重塑查科：移民美食、场所营造和查科战争

本文探讨了查科战争期间俄罗斯门诺派教徒在巴拉圭查科边境的定居点。这些殖民者从事一系列看似矛盾的地方营造实践——从农业环境和政治到精神和文化——巩固了他们对陌​​生和高度争议景观的脆弱主张。粮食安全的理念——从生产和消费的角度来看——将这些不同的活动联系起来。在巴拉圭查科，这些前俄罗斯小麦农民尝试了新的作物和食物方式。尽管他们是和平主义者，但他们为巴拉圭的军事努力提供了支持，同时他们还将庄稼运往纳粹德国。最后，作为一个实行内婚制并寻求与邻居隔离的族群，