ANNE CHAPMAN: Un aporte de Jorge Mery García
Estimado señor Blanc:
Desde 2002 tuve el privilegio de entablar profunda amistad y relación de colaboración con esta extraordinaria mujer. En tal virtud tuve el privilegio de pasar a formar parte de sus cercanos aquí en Chile, lo que me permitió estar al tanto, día a día, de sus útimas jornadas previas a su lamentable partida.
Una de sus mayores preocupaciones respecto de Chile, fue nuestro desconocimiento y consecuente falta de conciencia sobre el admirable legado de nuestros yaganes -tan altamente valorado por los argentinos-, cuyos últimos descendientes viven en suelo chileno, a saber, en Villa Ukika, situada en isla Navarino, en la Comuna de Cabo de Hornos, en lo que formara parte de su territorio ancestral.
En razón de lo expuesto, me permito sugerirle vivamente considerar la posibilidad de publicar en el blog la información del sitio web de la Cambridge University Press, que transcribo a continuación sobre su último libro, intitulado "European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin", el acaba de ver la luz en abril de 2010. Se trata de una obra de capital imporancia, en la que trabajó por largos años. Y su primera edición mundial creo será sin duda del interés de los bibliófilos interesados en el tema. Como primicia, una editorial chilena está preparando la que será su primera versión en castellano.
La entrevista de Marcelo Somarriva (2002) es de antología. Le agradezco mucho haberla trascrito.
Menos afortunada, en razón de la su contendio más bien insuficiente, es la crónica de El Mercurio (13/6) sobre la muerte de la Dra. Chapman, pero que tiene el mérito de constituir la primera información mediática, en todo el mundo, de su muerte. Un total acierto periodístico, sin duda.
Para información casi completa hasta 2010 sobre la bilbliografía y completa sobre la filmografía de Anne Chapaman, sugeriría consultar la versión en inglés de Wikipedia, cuyos datos se han actualizados periódicamente en base al CV de la insigne estudiosa cuya muerte ahora lamentamos..
Desde 2002 tuve el privilegio de entablar profunda amistad y relación de colaboración con esta extraordinaria mujer. En tal virtud tuve el privilegio de pasar a formar parte de sus cercanos aquí en Chile, lo que me permitió estar al tanto, día a día, de sus útimas jornadas previas a su lamentable partida.
Una de sus mayores preocupaciones respecto de Chile, fue nuestro desconocimiento y consecuente falta de conciencia sobre el admirable legado de nuestros yaganes -tan altamente valorado por los argentinos-, cuyos últimos descendientes viven en suelo chileno, a saber, en Villa Ukika, situada en isla Navarino, en la Comuna de Cabo de Hornos, en lo que formara parte de su territorio ancestral.
En razón de lo expuesto, me permito sugerirle vivamente considerar la posibilidad de publicar en el blog la información del sitio web de la Cambridge University Press, que transcribo a continuación sobre su último libro, intitulado "European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin", el acaba de ver la luz en abril de 2010. Se trata de una obra de capital imporancia, en la que trabajó por largos años. Y su primera edición mundial creo será sin duda del interés de los bibliófilos interesados en el tema. Como primicia, una editorial chilena está preparando la que será su primera versión en castellano.
La entrevista de Marcelo Somarriva (2002) es de antología. Le agradezco mucho haberla trascrito.
Menos afortunada, en razón de la su contendio más bien insuficiente, es la crónica de El Mercurio (13/6) sobre la muerte de la Dra. Chapman, pero que tiene el mérito de constituir la primera información mediática, en todo el mundo, de su muerte. Un total acierto periodístico, sin duda.
Para información casi completa hasta 2010 sobre la bilbliografía y completa sobre la filmografía de Anne Chapaman, sugeriría consultar la versión en inglés de Wikipedia, cuyos datos se han actualizados periódicamente en base al CV de la insigne estudiosa cuya muerte ahora lamentamos..
De antemano muy agradecido, lo saludo atentamente.
Jorge Mery
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Información detallada en siguiente enlace: http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521513791&ss=fro
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Información detallada en siguiente enlace: http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521513791&ss=fro
European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin
Anne Chapman
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European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin
Cambridge University Press
9780521513791 - European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin - By Anne Chapman
Frontmatter/Prelims
European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin
Cape Horn has been associated with its native inhabitants, the Yamana, as if the final furious expression of the continent were coupled with the most wretched people on earth. Even the great Darwin referred to them as “miserable degraded savages,” “the most abject and miserable creatures I anywhere behold.” This book is a documented (not fictional) narration of dramas played out from 1578 to 2000, in the Cape Horn area, by the Yamana, Charles Darwin, and Robert Fitz-Roy, among others. One objective of this work is to clarify why Darwin had such a negative impression of the “Fuegians,” as he called them, and how his writing on them relates to that of others. Another objective, the second, is to challenge the concept of ethno-history by incorporating an “ethnos” (the Yamana) into world history, by pointing out their role in the sequence of events of the last 400 years in the Cape Horn area and their contribution to our understanding of human society. The third objective is to treat the “events” that take place in Cape Horn – the discoveries and experiences of Francis Drake, James Cook, Herman Melville, Darwin, James Weddell, Charles Wilkes and James Ross – not only when they encountered the Yamana but how their discoveries and experiences affected the world at large.
The second chapter focuses on the whalers and sealers and the impact of their activity in the markets of the United States and Europe as well as on the Yamana. The last chapters concentrate mainly on the Anglican missionaries and the colonists – on the effects of their presence on the Yamana as a people. The epidemics that nearly extinguished them are another main theme. This book evokes 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 narrations are based on geographical, historical and ethnographic sources and Anne Chapman's work with the last few descendants of the Yamana. The body of this book has been written for the public at large, while the notes are for students and specialists; therefore it is a general work as well as a source reference and textbook.
Anne Chapman is a Franco-American ethnologist. She has done extensive fieldwork in Honduras with the Tolupan (Jicaque) since 1955 and the Lenca since 1965. In Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile), she has worked, as of 1964, with the last members of the Selk’nam (Onas) people as well as with four descendants of the Yamana, from 1985 into the 1990s, who were knowledgeable about their tradition and spoke the ancient language.
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European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin
Anne Chapman
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo
Cambridge University Press
32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA
http://www.cambridge.org/
The second chapter focuses on the whalers and sealers and the impact of their activity in the markets of the United States and Europe as well as on the Yamana. The last chapters concentrate mainly on the Anglican missionaries and the colonists – on the effects of their presence on the Yamana as a people. The epidemics that nearly extinguished them are another main theme. This book evokes 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 narrations are based on geographical, historical and ethnographic sources and Anne Chapman's work with the last few descendants of the Yamana. The body of this book has been written for the public at large, while the notes are for students and specialists; therefore it is a general work as well as a source reference and textbook.
Anne Chapman is a Franco-American ethnologist. She has done extensive fieldwork in Honduras with the Tolupan (Jicaque) since 1955 and the Lenca since 1965. In Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile), she has worked, as of 1964, with the last members of the Selk’nam (Onas) people as well as with four descendants of the Yamana, from 1985 into the 1990s, who were knowledgeable about their tradition and spoke the ancient language.
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European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, Before and After Darwin
Anne Chapman
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo
Cambridge University Press
32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA
http://www.cambridge.org/
Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521513791
© Anne Chapman 2010
This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
First published 2010
This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
First published 2010
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