CADIC   02618
CENTRO AUSTRAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
The guanaco in the symbolic world of the Selknam society
Autor/es:
PARMIGIANI, V.; MANSUR M. E.; BOGDANOVIC I.
Libro:
Etnoarchaeologia. Come ricerca di campo
Editorial:
B.A.R.
Referencias:
Año: 2011;
Resumen:
The guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is the main terrestrial mammal of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. This territory, located at the southern tip of South America, was inhabited by aboriginal communities until the early 20th century. This investigation is part of a research project at the central zone of Isla Grande, occupied in historical times by the Selknam society, hunter-gatherer, on which there is a vast documentary record. One of the aspects of this research was the analysis of ethnographic and historical sources on the Selknam society, where descriptions of myths, legends and ceremonies were studied. The guanaco appears in many of them, sometimes playing an essential role. These data were confronted with the study of the archaeozoological record of Ewan site, a ceremonial site dating from 1905. The results obtained from the integration of both types of data confirm the relevance of the guanaco for selknam society, not only in the subsistence and economic spheres, as revealed by archeozoological analysis, but also in the symbolic world, as an integrating and vertebrating axis of this society.