Hello today i’m going to talk about a special topic for me: Selk’nam.
Selk’nam is an extinguished to the second half 20th century. Many Etnologist and anthropologist can contribute to preserve some cultural element. The last selk’nam woman whit life was Lola Kiepja y Ángela Loij. They died on the second half 20th century.
The last anthropologist that worked with them was Anne Chapman. Her work was really nice because she rescued the cultural and some principal ritual: Hain. This was a ritual of initiation of men. A step to the childhood to adult life.
Anne Chapman was a friend of both women.
Selk’nam lived in the most austral part of the territory of Chile and Argentina on big island. They had a special economy and complete tools for survive. They are not primitive or a simple society, they had a complex system of symbols that for us isn’t too much important but they develop it. If we compare our life whit to complicate technology obviously that they are different, but maybe his mind was thinking in another world not only material… I think.
Another reason that I think that Selk’nam are special is for that they showed us a very different to live.
I think that selk’nam was a really good culture, (maybe like Tupi, or no Tisi?, what’s your opinion?
And that is my post of today… Goodbye my friends.
Selk’nam is an extinguished to the second half 20th century. Many Etnologist and anthropologist can contribute to preserve some cultural element. The last selk’nam woman whit life was Lola Kiepja y Ángela Loij. They died on the second half 20th century.
The last anthropologist that worked with them was Anne Chapman. Her work was really nice because she rescued the cultural and some principal ritual: Hain. This was a ritual of initiation of men. A step to the childhood to adult life.
Anne Chapman was a friend of both women.
Selk’nam lived in the most austral part of the territory of Chile and Argentina on big island. They had a special economy and complete tools for survive. They are not primitive or a simple society, they had a complex system of symbols that for us isn’t too much important but they develop it. If we compare our life whit to complicate technology obviously that they are different, but maybe his mind was thinking in another world not only material… I think.
Another reason that I think that Selk’nam are special is for that they showed us a very different to live.
I think that selk’nam was a really good culture, (maybe like Tupi, or no Tisi?, what’s your opinion?
And that is my post of today… Goodbye my friends.
they are very interesting,, i could learn a little about them in our last work of ethnology , because I don’t know very much about them D=
ReplyDeletelucho!! sice your disertation I have interest in read Anne Chmpan because she gaves tho selk'nam people the capacity of reflexon bout her existence. Not like other that thought they were involutions.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed doing our work about Anne Chapman. I think her analysis about the Hain ceremony was very interesting and I liked her hypothesis about how the selk'nam gave an order to the world. But the thing that I will always remeber is what selk'nam said about moon and his spots. Did you remeber?
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