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.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks.

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.

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

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 ice-age Europe as they penetrated and settled the wilds of Fuego-Patagonia. Much later, sixteenth-century European voyagers encountered their descendants: the Aünikenk (southern Tehuelche), Selk'nam (Ona), Yámana (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.The contributors are Gillian Beer, Luis Alberto Borrero, Anne Chapman, Chalmers M. Clapperton, Andrew P. Currant, Jean-Paul Duviols, Mateo Martinic B., Robert D. McCulloch, Colin McEwan, Francisco Mena L., Alfredo Prieto, Jorge Rabassa, and Michael Taussig.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

First published in 1997 by British Museum Press.

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

ISBN:

9780691601625

0691601623

9780691631271

0691631271

9781400864768

1400864763

OCLC:

889252383