Double Coloniality in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina: A bioarchaeological and Historiographical Approach to Selk'nam Demographics and Health (La Candelaria Mission, Late Nineteenth and Early Tweentieth Centuries)

Abstract

At the Southernmost reaches of South America, Tierra del Fuefo was one of the las places on Earth to be populated by humans and was one of the last settings of colonization by Europeans. As a result, a thoroughly unique colonial situation unfolded here. Huan settlement in Tierra del Fuego, dates back about twelve thousand years, and when Westerners arrived in the region they identified four different cultural groups...