03652cam a2200409 i 4500 283113784 TxAuBib 20140530120000.0 140530s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780691058498 $15.00 0691058490 $15.00 TxAuBib rda McEwan, Colin. Patagonia : Natural History, Prehistory and Ethnography At The Uttermost End of the Earth / edited by Colin McEwan, Luis A. Borrero and Alfredo Prieto. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1997. 200 p : ill., (some col.), maps; softcover ; 28 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Princeton paperbacks Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-196) and index. Foreword / The Ambassadors of Argentina and Chile to the United Kingdom -- Introduction / Colin McEwan, Luis A. Borrero and Alfredo Prieto -- The natural setting: the glacial and post-glacial environmental history of Fuego-Patagonia / Robert D. McCulloch, Chalmers M. Clapperton, Jorge Robasso and Andrew P. Currant -- The peopling of Patagonia: the first human occupation / Luis Alberta Borrero and Colin McEwan -- Middle to Late Holocene adaptations in Patagonia / Francisco Mena -- The origins of ethnographic subsistence patterns in Fuego-Patagonia / Luis Alberta Borrero -- The great ceremonies of the Selk'nam and the Yámana: a comparative analysis / Anne Chapman -- The meeting of two cultures: Indians and colonists in the Magellan region / Mateo Martinic B. -- The Patagonian 'giants' / Jean-Paul Duviols -- Travelling the other way: travel narratives and truth claims / Gillian Beer -- Tierra del Fuego- land of fire, land of mimicry / Michael Taussig -- Patagonian painted cloaks: an ancient puzzle / Alfredo Prieto. Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter-gatherers began to colonise the continental extremity of South America - 'the uttermost end of the earth'. Their arrival marked the culmination of mankind's epic journey to people the globe. 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 Aonikenk (southern Tehuelche), Selk'nam (Ona), Yomana (Yahgan) and Kaweskar (Alakaluf), living, as they 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 virtually disappeared. The essays in this volume trace a largely unwritten history of human adaptation, survival and eventual extinction. They are published to accompany an exhibition on Fuego-Patagonia at the Museum of Mankind, London. 20140530. Indians of South America Patagonia (Argentina and Chile.) Natural history Patagonia (Argentina and Chile.) Prehistory Patagonia. Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) Description and travel. South America Patagonia. Indigenous People. Hunters Gathers. Enthnography. Culture. Borrero, Luis Alberto. Prieto, Alfredo. Princeton paperbacks.