Patagonia: Natural History, Prehistory, and Ethnography at the Uttermost End of the Earth (Princeton Legacy Library, 386),Used

Patagonia: Natural History, Prehistory, and Ethnography at the Uttermost End of the Earth (Princeton Legacy Library, 386),Used

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Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as icecaps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of huntergatherers 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 FuegoPatagonia. Much later, sixteenthcentury European voyagers encountered their descendants: the Anikenk (southern Tehuelche), Selk'nam (Ona), Ymana (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 midtwentieth 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 FuegoPatagonia at the Museum of Mankind, London.The contributors are Gillian Beer, Luis Alberto Borrero, Anne Chapman, Chalmers M. Clapperton, Andrew P. Currant, JeanPaul 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 printondemand technology to again make available previously outofprint 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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