European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-04-19
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This is a documented narration of dramas played out from 1578 to 2000 in the Cape Horn area, Tierra del Fuego, by the native Yamana and Charles Darwin, explorers, sealers, whalers, Anglican missionaries, and three other famous people who made contact with some of the last Yamana. The narration, based on geographical, historical, and ethnographic sources and Anne Chapman's fieldwork with the last few descendants of the Yamana, describes the Europeans' motives for going to Tierra del Fuego and the Yamana's motives for staying there some 6,000 years, what the outsiders gained, and what the Yamana lost. The main objective of this work is to incorporate the hunting-gathering Yamana into world history by evoking their way of life, especially Jemmy Button and Fuegia Basket in comparison with the outsiders they encountered, especially Drake, Cook, and Darwin in their scientific world in the context of their experiences with the Yamana in Tierra del Fuego and nearby areas.

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp. ix
Acknowledgementsp. xv
Glossaryp. xix
Introductionp. 1
1578 to 1775: Drake Encounters the Fuegians; The First Massacres of Europeans and Fuegians; Captain Cook Inaugurates a New Erap. 16
1780 to 1825: Moby Dicks in Tierra del Fuego; The Whalers and Sealers Arrivep. 52
1826 to 1830: The First Voyage of His Majesty's Ships to Tierra del Fuego; Four Fuegians Taken to Englandp. 97
1830 to 1832: Fuegians in England; Fitz-Roy and Darwin Meet; The Beagle Returns to Tierra del Fuego with Darwin and Three Fuegiansp. 149
1833 to 1834: The Three Fuegians with Darwin and Fitz-Roy in Tierra del Fuego; Darwin and Fitz-Roy Visit the Falkland Islands; Adios Fuegiansp. 190
1838 to 1843: United States and Great Britain Antarctic Expeditions Encounter the Yamanap. 243
1848 to 1851: Allen F. Gardiner Searches for Heathens and Finds the Yamanap. 264
1852 to 1858: The Missionaries Carry On; Jemmy Button Is Locatedp. 312
1858 to 1860: The Yamana Visit the Keppel Mission; Massacre in Wulaiap. 348
1860 to 1869: The First Devastating Epidemic; The Missionaries Seek a Location; Four Other Yamana Visit Englandp. 397
1869 to 1880: The Missionaries Settle in Tierra del Fuego; The Yamana Attempt to Adjustp. 436
1881 to 1882: First Signs of Epidemics; Alakaluf Kidnapped to Europe; Last News of Fuegia Basketp. 483
1882 to 1886: The French Arrive; Then the Argentines; The Epidemics Become Uncontrollablep. 510
1887 to 1900: Other Fuegians Kidnapped; The Unending Epidemics; “Is God Very Far Away?”p. 551
The Twentieth Century: Ushuaia, the Ancient Yamana Campsite, Becomes a Cityp. 583
Notesp. 623
Bibliographyp. 685
Index of Proper Namesp. 707
Index of Place Namesp. 716
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