The Selk'nam, Yámana, and Kawéskar cultures were violently erased by European colonization. Settlers even offered a British pound for the head of each indigenous person killed. Their skulls were systematically sent to the Museum of Anthropology in London, in a brutal and ruthless manner. In this context, the investigations and denunciations of the German anthropologist Martín Gusinde were a key contribution to the memory of the exterminated peoples. In his writings, we can access a world whose disappearance is a testament to the darkest aspects of modernity. This new edition is also an invitation to reconnect with those cultures and explore the different dimensions of their existence, their way of inhabiting these untamed lands, their deepest spiritual world, and their rituals.

Author: Martín Gusinde