A striking photographic testimonial to the people of Tierra del Fuego, a society defined by magic, spirits, and communion with nature
A German missionary sent to Tierra del Fuego in 1919 by his congregation, Martin Gusinde was a major Americanist and ethnographer from the first half of the twentieth century. While his mission was ostensibly to convert the native peoples among whom he lived, Gusinde did just the opposite, eventually becoming one of the first Westerners ever to be initiated into the various sacred rites of the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego. In the course of four sojourns made between 1919 and 1924, from the canals of Western Patagonia to the great island of Tierra del Fuego, he learned and wrote about the Kawésqar, Yamana, and Selk’nam peoples. Gradually, the missionary became an anthropologist.
Fascinated by what he saw, Gusinde took more than one thousand photographs, all produced using a portable darkroom. Gusinde captured some truly extraordinary images that his contemporaries were unable to: feather-clad bodies sporting high headdresses made of bark, wrapped up in guanaco furs, or entirely covered with ritual paint, populating a landscape battered by wind, rain, and snow―the heart of a natural world that Darwin had celebrated, not long before, for its wildness. A dazzling visual experience, Gusinde’s photographs are a monument to the memory of the Tierra del Fuego people as well as an exceptional anthropological document. 100+ tritone illustrations 马丁 · 古辛德是20世纪上半叶美国重要的民族主义者和民族志学者,他的摄影作品为火地群岛的人民作了精彩的见证,这个社会以魔法、精神和与自然的交流为特征,德国传教士于1919年被他的教会送到火地群岛。表面上看,他的使命是让他所居住的土著人民皈依,但古辛德却反其道而行之,最终成为首批加入火地群岛居民各种神圣仪式的西方人之一。在1919年至1924年的四次旅居中,从西巴塔哥尼亚的运河到大火地群岛岛,他了解并记录了卡韦恰恰、亚马纳和塞尔克南人的故事。渐渐地,传教士变成了人类学家,被他所看到的所吸引,古辛德拍了一千多张照片,都是用一个便携式暗房拍摄的。古辛德捕捉到了一些他同时代的人无法捕捉到的真正非凡的画面: 羽毛覆盖的身体戴着用树皮做成的高头饰,裹着原驼毛皮,或者全身涂满宗教仪式上的颜料,在一片被风、雨、雪摧毁的风景中生存——这是达尔文不久前曾赞美过的自然世界的核心,因为它的野性。古辛德的摄影作品令人眼花缭乱,既是火地群岛记忆的丰碑,也是独特的人类学文献。100 + tritone 插图 基本信息 出版社 : Thames & Hudson (2015年6月16日) 语言 : 英语 精装 : 300页 ISBN-10 : 0500544468 ISBN-13 : 978-0500544464 商品重量 : 2.18 kilograms 尺寸 : 25.4 x 3.56 x 32 cm
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