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Yahgan / John M. Cooper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, John M., author.
- Series:
- EHRAF world cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Argentina.
- Ethnology.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Connecticut : Human Relations Area Files, 2003.
- Summary:
- The Yahgan occupied the southern coast of the island of Tierra del Fuego. They are considered to be extinct. Most of the information on the Yahgan is from the nineteenth century. The Yahgan language was a language isolate with no known relationship to any other. The Yahgan lived in groups of one to three nuclear families who wandered in an area until the food supply was used up and then moved on. There were no higher level social or political groups. This collection contains three documents. The time focus of the file is from the early nineteenth century to ca. 1925. The primary source of information on the Yahgan was written by Martin Gusinde in the early twentieth century.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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