Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • About this book
  • Cover page
  • Introduction. An Amazing Journey
  • Chapter 1. Background and Personages
  • The. Adventure and the Beagle Expeditions
  • The Protagonists: Charles Darwin,. Robert Fitz Roy, and the Fuegians
  • Chapter 2. The Capture
  • Four Fuegians on their Way to London
  • In England
  • The Impact on London Newspapers
  • Observations about the Fuegians
  • Savage and Abject
  • Thieves
  • Cannibalism
  • The Language
  • Difficulties in Understanding the Other
  • Scientific Description of the Fuegians
  • Chapter 3. Coming Home
  • Arrival and Reception
  • Last Encounter with Jemmy
  • Voyages to Malvinas
  • Chapter 4. After the Beagle
  • Darwin and Fitz Roy
  • The Fuegians
  • Woollya Massacre
  • The Fuegians in Literature
  • Chapter 5. The Nineteenth Century: Evolutionism, Racism and Human Hierarchies
  • An Evolutionary Century
  • Time: Epistemic Centrality, Linearity, Irreversibility and Variability
  • Change: Immanence, Stages and Directionality, Progress and Decadence, Continuity and Novelty
  • The Darwinian Theory
  • Sociohistorical Evolutionism and Biological Evolution
  • Diversity, Inequality, Racism and other Hierarchies
  • Chapter 6. Empire, Affection and Tragedy
  • References
  • Credits.