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Landscapes for the nation, landscapes for the congregation. The Fuegian space in the eyes of Fagnano and Lista

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No. 47 (2023): Primer Semestre
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2023.71497

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In August 1886, President Julio Argentino Roca signed a decree ordering the first official expedition to explore the north and east of the Argentine part of the Isla Grande of Tierra del Fuego by land. It would be commanded by Ramón Lista and would have the Salesian missionary Giuseppe Fagnano as chaplain. This article analyses the ways in which Lista and Fagnano experienced the journey and the tour of the "new" spaces, how they dialogued with the previous observations of other travellers and what elements of the landscape they valued. For that, we will carry out a cross-sectional reading of the written records that both characters left behind during and after the completion of the trip. We maintain that these writings contributed to the configuration of a polysemic landscape of the north and east of the Isla Grande, nourished by the contributions of other travellers and building geographic imaginaries for readers.

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landscape, narratives, expedition, Tierra del Fuego

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Ortiz, M. (2023). Landscapes for the nation, landscapes for the congregation. The Fuegian space in the eyes of Fagnano and Lista. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (47), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2023.71497
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Revista Chilena de Antropología
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Universidad de Chile
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