At Home with the Patagonians

Inspired by Darwin's account of his experienced in Patagonia, retired Royal Navy Commander Musters landed at Gregory Bay in 1869 and spent nearly a year crossing the steppes to the Rio Negro. He lived and traveled with the Teheulche tribes, and described their lifestyle, rituals and hierarchies, and other cultural features that would become the mainstay of anthropology when that discipline was founded some years later. His account was first serialized in the Buenos Aires Standard. There is ...