Author: Thomas BridgesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : DICTIONARY. Yahgan
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Yamana-English
Author: Thomas BridgesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : DICTIONARY. Yahgan
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Yamana-English
Author: T. BridgesFolk Literature of the Yamana Indians
Author: Johannes WilbertPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520352211
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
"In my opinion this project of publications devoted to folk literature of South America is of paramount importance. South American mythology belongs to the spiritual inheritance of mankind on par with the great masterpieces of Greek and Roman antiquity and of the Near and Far East. At the present time this material is scattered in numerous publications most of which are not easy to locate. It would do a great service to scholars all over the world and to the general public to have them collected in a series of volumes."--Claude Levi-Strauss "It is time we had a set of volumes containing good source material for those who wish to study South American indigenous narratives; I am also quite certain that many nonspecialists would be interested in original documents of this kind."--Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
Yamana - English
Author: Thomas BridgesEuropean Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin
Author: Anne ChapmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521513790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
A narration of dramas played out from 1578 to 2000 in Tierra del Fuego by the native Yamana, Darwin, explorers, sealers, whalers and missionaries.
Patagonia
Author: Fernanda PeñalozaPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039109173
Category : Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
"This volume is a selection of the papers presented during the international conference Patagonia: Myths and Realities organised through the Centre of Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester and held in September 2005 at the Manchester Museum"--Introd.
Savage
Author: Nick HazlewoodPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466880287
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
A tale of tragedy, catastrophe, and the triumph of the human spirit. In 1830 a Yamana Indian boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the hunt for food and the need for shelter, and taken halfway round the world to England, then at the height of the Industrial Revolution. He learned English and Christianity, met King William IV and Queen Adelaide, and made a strong impression on many of the major figures in Britain, eventually becoming a celebrity. Charles Darwin himself befriended the Fuegian and later wrote about their time together on The Beagle, voyaging back to the southern tip of South America. Their friendship influenced one of the most important and controversial works of the century, On the Origin of Species. Upon his return to Tierra del Fuego, Jemmy found that life could never be the same for him there. The Beagle's captain deposited the young man on a lonely, windswept shore and charged him with the tasks of "civilizing" his people and bringing God to his homeland. At first ostracized and attacked by other Fuegians, Jemmy later became the target of zealous and ambitious missionaries. Thirty years after his return, a missionary schooner in Tierra del Fuego was attacked, with nearly everyone on board killed, and Button himself was accused of leading the massacre. In Nick Hazlewood's Savage, Button's life story illustrates how the lofty ideals of imperialism often resulted in appalling consequences. Thoroughly researched and remarkably well written, this fascinating and poignant story is ultimately about survival, revenge, murder, and the destruction of a whole race of people, blurring the boundaries of civilization and savagery.
Yamana-english, a Dictionary of the Speech of Tierra Del Fuego
Author: Rodolfo LenzThe Yamana
Author: Martin GusindePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fuegians
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Undisciplined
Author: Nihad FarooqPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479806994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Reciprocity, Wonder, Consequence : Object Lessons in the Land of Fire -- Of Blindness, Blood, and Second Sight : Transpersonal Journeys from Brazil to Ethiopia -- Creole Authenticity and Cultural Performance : Ethnographic Personhood in the Twentieth Century -- Performing Diaspora : The Science of Speaking for Haiti -- Conclusion : "I Danced, I Don't Know How" : Media, Race, and the Posthuman