...From the rainforests of Costa Rica and the Amazon to the windswept lands of Tierra del Fuego, this book discusses natural settings within contemporary Latin American novels as they depict key moments of environmental change or crisis in the region from nineteenth-century imperialism to the present...

...The known ethnic groups from Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego are classified within the cover-all categories of terrestrial and maritime hunter-gatherers. Of course, the differences observed between groups were real, but no major consideration for the existence of mixed cultural configurations...

... spatial-temporal praxis. The study of form-function holds the clues to disentangle the complex nature of production-consumption dynamics. Changes in consumption patterns were identified between hunter-gatherer and fishing societies from Tierra del Fuego along the human occupation of the region. High...