Myths of alterity in Tierra del Fuego. From travellers to anthropologists
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to study the myths of alterity that have mediated the interpretation of the Selk’nam culture of Tierra del Fuego from the earlier voyagers to the antropologists such as Gusinde or Chapman. It proposes too a reflection on a method named here ethnographic recreation, that is the anthropologist induces his informants to reproduce some aspects of their cultural tradition in order to document them. Finally, the shift in the anthropological perspective from extermination to etnogesis is revised.
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