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Patagonia - Natural History, Prehistory, and Ethnography at the Uttermost End of the Earth (Hardcover)
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Patagonia - Natural History, Prehistory, and Ethnography at the Uttermost End of the Earth (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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 Aunikenk (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. 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.
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