Resumen de Native peoples of Tierra del Fuego on show in London in 1889: in heavy chains like Bengal tigers
Peter Mason, Christian Báez Allende
Centred on the case of several Fuegians exhibited in London in 1889, where one of them was left to die, this article seeks to place this microhistorical event within the wider contexts of the anthropological study of late-nineteenth century British and continental European culture, and in particular the role of the human zoo within that culture, as well as the historical study of the parts of Tierra del Fuego from which these human exhibits were taken. It also aims to break down the disciplinary apartheid by which historians study the European explorers of non-European cultures while anthropologists study the cultures that those explorers encountered.
