Patagonia : natural history, prehistory, and ethnography at the uttermost end of the earth / edited by Colin McEwan, Luis A. Borrero, and Alfredo Prieto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McEwan, Colin, editor.

Borrero, Luis Alberto, editor.

Prieto, Alfredo, editor.

Project Muse.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Patagonia (Argentina and Chile).

Indians of South America.

Natural history--Patagonia (Argentina and Chile).

Natural history.

Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--Description and travel.

Patagonia (Argentina and Chile).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1997.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter-gatherers began to colonize the continental extremity of South America -- "the uttermost end of the earth". Their arrival marked the culmination of humankind's epic journey to people the globe. Now they are extinct. This book tells their story.

The book describes how these intrepid nomads confronted a hostile climate every bit as forbidding as iceage Europe as they penetrated and settled the wilds of Fuego-Patagonia. Much later, sixteenth-century European voyagers encountered their descendants: the Aonikenk (southern Tehuelche), Selk'nam (Ona), Yamana (Yahgan), and Kawashekar (Alacaluf), living, as the Europeans saw it, in a state of savagery. The first contacts led to tales of a race of giants and, ever since, Patagonia has exerted a special hold on the European imagination. Tragically, by the mid-twentieth century, the last remnants of the indigenous way of life had disappeared for ever. The essays in this volume trace a largely unwritten history of human adaptation, survival, and eventual extinction. Accompanied by 110 striking photographs, they are published to accompany a major exhibition on Fuego-Patagonia at the Museum of Mankind, London.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword by the Ambassadors of Argentina and Chile to the United Kingdom / Pfirter, Rogelio / Artaza, Mario

Introduction / McEwan, Colin / Borrero, Luis A. / Prieto, Alfredo

THE CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

KEY DATES AND EVENTS

1. The Natural Setting The Glacial and Post-Glacial Environmental History of Fuego-Patagonia / McCulloch, Robert D. / Clapperton, Chalmers M. / Rabassa, Jorge / Currant, Andrew P.

2. The Peopling of Patagonia The First Human Occupation / Borrero, Luis Alberto / McEwan, Colin

3. Middle to Late Holocene Adaptations in Patagonia / Mena, Francisco

4. The Origins of Ethnographic Subsistence Patterns in Fuego-Patagonia / Borrero, Luis Alberto

5. The Great Ceremonies of the Selk'nam and the Yamana / Chapman, Anne

6. The Meeting of Two Cultures Indians and Colonists in the Magellan Region / Martinic B., Mateo

7. The Patagonian 'Giants' / Duviols, Jean-Paul

8. Travelling the Other Way Travel Narratives and Truth Claims / Beer, Gillian

9. Tierra del Fuego

Land of Fire, Land of Mimicry / Taussig, Michael

10. Patagonian Painted Cloaks / Prieto, Alfredo

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

PICTURE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Notes:

Originally published in 1997 by British Museum Press.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-196) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Patagonia : natural history, prehistory, and ethnography at the uttermost end of the earth.

ISBN:

9781400864768

1400864763

Publisher Number:

99989158984

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.