Yaganes del Cabo de Hornos. Encuentros con los Europeos Antes y Después de Darwin

by Anne Chapman

This is a documented narration of dramas played out from 1578 to 2000 in the Cape Horn area, Tierra del Fuego, by the native Yamana and Charles Darwin, explorers, sealers, whalers, Anglican missionaries, and three other famous people who made contact with some of the last Yamana. The narration, based on geographical, historical, and ethnographic sources and Anne Chapman's fieldwork with the last few descendants of the Yamana, describes the Europeans' motives for going to Tierra del Fuego and the Yamana's motives for staying there some 6,000 years, what the outsiders gained, and what the Yamana lost. The main objective of this work is to incorporate the hunting-gathering Yamana into world history by evoking their way of life, especially Jemmy Button and Fuegia Basket in comparison with the outsiders they encountered, especially Drake, Cook, and Darwin in their scientific world in the context of their experiences with the Yamana in Tierra del Fuego and nearby areas.

Genres: Nonfiction

791 pages, Hardcover

First published April 30, 2010

About the author

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Est une ethnologue et anthropologue franco-américaine. Docteur en anthropologie de l'université de Paris, René-Descartes, elle a travaillé avec Claude Lévi-Strauss, Paul Kirchhoff, Alfonso Villas Rojas et Karl Polanyi.

Reviews

[Alvaro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un completísimo compendio de los relatos de cronistas europeos con los Yaganes, mucho antes que el Estado chileno se preocupara de tomar posesión de esas tierras. Una obra muy bien editada en castellano por Pehuén y cuya segunda mitad leí en digital en www.bpdigital.cl

Recomendado solo para interesados en la materia. Si se busca una aproximación al tema, mejor otros títulos de la misma autora.