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Title	:	The Lost Tribes of Tierra del Fuego: Selk'nam, Yamana, Kawésqar
Author	:	Martin Gusinde
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 300 pages
Published	:	June 16th 2015 by Thames Hudson
Categories	:	Art. Photography. Anthropology. Fantasy. Mythology. Native Americans

The Lost Tribes of Tierra del Fuego: Selk'nam, Yamana, Kawésqar Hardcover | Pages: 300 pages

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A German missionary sent to Tierra del Fuego in 1919 by his congregation, Martin Gusinde was a major Americanist and ethnographer from the first half of the twentieth century. While his mission was ostensibly to convert the native peoples among whom he lived, Gusinde did just the opposite, eventually becoming one of the first Westerners ever to be initiated into the various sacred rites of the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego. In the course of four sojourns made between 1919 and 1924, from the canals of Western Patagonia to the great island of Tierra del Fuego, he learned and wrote about the Kawésqar, Yamana, and Selk’nam peoples. Gradually, the missionary became an anthropologist.


Fascinated by what he saw, Gusinde took more than one thousand photographs, all produced using a portable darkroom. Gusinde captured some truly extraordinary images that his contemporaries were unable to: feather-clad bodies sporting high headdresses made of bark, wrapped up in guanaco furs, or entirely covered with ritual paint, populating a landscape battered by wind, rain, and snow—the heart of a natural world that Darwin had celebrated, not long before, for its wildness. A dazzling visual experience, Gusinde’s photographs are a monument to the memory of the Tierra del Fuego people as well as an exceptional anthropological document.

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The hunter-gatherers of Tierra del Fuego showed exceptional powers of adaptation to a harsh, if rich, environment located at the southernmost point of the globe. But the fragile demography of these groups was unable to withstand the arrival of European settlers, and the diseases they brought with them, and in the case of the Selk'nam what can only be described as genocide. Cultures that had existed for thousands of years were thus swept away in a matter of decades, leaving behind them no more

Excellent research pictorial on a sad moment in time for the natives of Tierra Del Fuego. Good background information.Un gran trabajo de investigacion

A masterpiece in ethnography as well as in photography. Give yourself the great experience of diving into the (lost) Tierre del Fuego world with Gusinde!

Would have liked a bit more detail about the various ceremonies, tbh. Photos are good, but context is too incomplete.



Un gran trabajo de investigacion