Contacto interétnico en el norte de Tierra del Fuego : la Misión Salesiana La Candelaria (Río Grande) y la salud de la población Selk’nam (1895-1931)

This thesis addresses the consequences of inter-ethnic contact of the Selk'nam (onas) population -who occupied most of the steppe of Tierra del Fuego towards the end of the nineteenth century- by the time the Argentinean and Chilean colonization of Tierra del Fuego began to emerge. To understan...

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Main Author: Romina Casali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2012-11-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/64311
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description This thesis addresses the consequences of inter-ethnic contact of the Selk'nam (onas) population -who occupied most of the steppe of Tierra del Fuego towards the end of the nineteenth century- by the time the Argentinean and Chilean colonization of Tierra del Fuego began to emerge. To understand the synergistic behavior of the diverse factors that influenced the health of this community, we offer a detailed study of the missionary daily life in accordance to the social, economic, political and ecological lifestyle of the region. From a historiographic perspective, this thesis contributes to the specific discussion around the impact of contact on the island, a subject regularly addressed by anthropology and archaeology. We contribute -with a case study- to major discussions related to the impact of colonization on health and demographic structure of the aboriginal populations as well as on the role of specific diseases such as tuberculosis, in particular. This paper thoroughly describes the disturbances caused by the imposition of a social system completely unrelated to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of the selk’nam : nutrition, rest, work, contagious situations, architecture, diseases, social tension, etc., without neglecting the biological substrate and natural history of the diseases involved, In doing so, we highlight the importance of the social and cultural disruptions on the rise of morbidity and mortality beyond (and in addition to) issues such as : the genetic structure, the immunological history of the populations involved or co-evolution between the host and pathogen.
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spelling doaj.art-09b8f05df056431c965f2731997f5a4f2024-02-14T16:54:17ZengCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos1626-02522012-11-0110.4000/nuevomundo.64311Contacto interétnico en el norte de Tierra del Fuego : la Misión Salesiana La Candelaria (Río Grande) y la salud de la población Selk’nam (1895-1931)Romina CasaliThis thesis addresses the consequences of inter-ethnic contact of the Selk'nam (onas) population -who occupied most of the steppe of Tierra del Fuego towards the end of the nineteenth century- by the time the Argentinean and Chilean colonization of Tierra del Fuego began to emerge. To understand the synergistic behavior of the diverse factors that influenced the health of this community, we offer a detailed study of the missionary daily life in accordance to the social, economic, political and ecological lifestyle of the region. From a historiographic perspective, this thesis contributes to the specific discussion around the impact of contact on the island, a subject regularly addressed by anthropology and archaeology. We contribute -with a case study- to major discussions related to the impact of colonization on health and demographic structure of the aboriginal populations as well as on the role of specific diseases such as tuberculosis, in particular. This paper thoroughly describes the disturbances caused by the imposition of a social system completely unrelated to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of the selk’nam : nutrition, rest, work, contagious situations, architecture, diseases, social tension, etc., without neglecting the biological substrate and natural history of the diseases involved, In doing so, we highlight the importance of the social and cultural disruptions on the rise of morbidity and mortality beyond (and in addition to) issues such as : the genetic structure, the immunological history of the populations involved or co-evolution between the host and pathogen.https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/64311interethnic relationsSelk’namhealthtuberculosislivestock sheep.
spellingShingle Romina Casali
Contacto interétnico en el norte de Tierra del Fuego : la Misión Salesiana La Candelaria (Río Grande) y la salud de la población Selk’nam (1895-1931)
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
interethnic relations
Selk’nam
health
tuberculosis
livestock sheep.
title Contacto interétnico en el norte de Tierra del Fuego : la Misión Salesiana La Candelaria (Río Grande) y la salud de la población Selk’nam (1895-1931)
title_full Contacto interétnico en el norte de Tierra del Fuego : la Misión Salesiana La Candelaria (Río Grande) y la salud de la población Selk’nam (1895-1931)
title_fullStr Contacto interétnico en el norte de Tierra del Fuego : la Misión Salesiana La Candelaria (Río Grande) y la salud de la población Selk’nam (1895-1931)
title_full_unstemmed Contacto interétnico en el norte de Tierra del Fuego : la Misión Salesiana La Candelaria (Río Grande) y la salud de la población Selk’nam (1895-1931)
title_short Contacto interétnico en el norte de Tierra del Fuego : la Misión Salesiana La Candelaria (Río Grande) y la salud de la población Selk’nam (1895-1931)
title_sort contacto interetnico en el norte de tierra del fuego la mision salesiana la candelaria rio grande y la salud de la poblacion selk nam 1895 1931
topic interethnic relations
Selk’nam
health
tuberculosis
livestock sheep.
url https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/64311
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