Yahgan : SH06.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2003-
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://ehrafWorldCultures.yale.edu/collection?owc=SH06
Subjects

Included WorkCooper, John M. (John Montgomery), 1881-1949 Yahgan.
Included WorkGusinde, Martin, 1886-1969 Yamana, vom Leben und Denken der Wassernomaden am Kap Hoorn. Selections. English.
Included WorkLothrop, S. K. (Samuel Kirkland), 1892-1965. Indians of Tierra del Fuego. Selections.
Other author/creatorHuman Relations Area Files, inc.
SerieseHRAF world cultures. South America
EHRAF world cultures. South America. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Cultural summary, Yahgan / John Beierle -- The Yahgan / John M. Cooper -- The Yahgan, the life and thought of the water nomads of Cape Horn / Martin Gusinde -- The Indians of Tierra del Fuego / Samuel Kirkland Lothrop.
Abstract The Yahgan occupied the southern coast of the island of Tierra del Fuego. They are considered to be extinct. Most of the information on the Yahgan is from the nineteenth century. The Yahgan language was a language isolate with no known relationship to any other. The Yahgan lived in groups of one to three nuclear families who wandered in an area until the food supply was used up and then moved on. There were no higher level social or political groups. This collection contains three documents. The time focus of the file is from the early nineteenth century to ca. 1925. The primary source of information on the Yahgan was written by Martin Gusinde in the early twentieth century.
General noteTitle from Web page (viewed Apr. 29, 2008).
General noteThis portion of eHRAF world cultures was released in 2003 and its content is identical to the microfiche file.
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