European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin
Cambridge University Press, 7/1/2010
EAN 9780521513791, ISBN10: 0521513790
Hardcover, 744 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 4.5 cm
Language: English
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.
INTRODUCTION
1. 1578–1775
DRAKE ENCOUNTERS THE FUEGIANS
THE FIRST MASSACRE OF EUROPEANS
CAPTAIN COOK INAUGURATES A NEW ERA
2. 1780–1825
MOBY DICKS IN TIERRA DEL FUEGO
THE WHALERS AND SEALERS ARRIVE
3. 1826–30
tHE FIRST VOYAGE OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS TO TIERRA DEL FUEGO
FOUR FUEGIANS TAKEN TO ENGLAND
4. 1830–2
FUEGIANS IN ENGLAND
FITZ-ROY AND DARWIN MEET
THE BEAGLE RETURNS TO TIERRA DEL FUEGO WITH DARWIN
5. 1833–6
tHE THREE FUEGIANS WITH DARWIN AND FITZ-ROY IN TIERRA DEL FUEGO
ADIOS FUEGUINOS
6. 1838–43
USA AND GB ANTARCTIC EXPEDITIONS ARRIVE NEAR CAPE HORN AND MEET THE YAMANA
7. 1848–51
ALLEN F. GARDINER SEARCHES FOR HEATHENS AND FINDS THE YAMANA
8. 1852–8
tHE MISSIONARIES CARRY ON, JEMMY BUTTON IS LOCATED
9. 1858–60
YAMANA VISIT THE KEPPEL MISSION
MASSACRE IN TIERRA DEL FUEGO
10. 1860–9
tHE FIRST EPIDEMIC
THE MISSIONARIES SEEK A LOCATION
FOUR OTHER YAMANA VISIT ENGLAND
11. 1869–80
tHE MISSIONARIES SETTLE IN USHUAIA
THE YAMANA ATTEMPT TO ADJUST
12. 1881–2
fIRST SIGNS OF EPIDEMICS IN USHUAIA
ALAKALUFS KIDNAPPED TO EUROPE
NEWS OF FUEGIA BASKET
13. 1882–6
tHE FRENCH ARRIVE, THEN THE ARGENTINES
THE EPIDEMICS BECOME UNCONTROLLED
14. 1887–1900
oTHER FUEGIANS KIDNAPPED
THE NON-ENDING EPIDEMICS
'IS GOD VERY FAR AWAY?'
15. THE XX CENTURY
THE YAMANAS
USHUAIA, THEIR ANCIENT CAMP SITE, BECOMES A CITY.