Martin Gusinde
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Martín Gusinde was a priest and ethnologist famous for his work in anthropology, particularly on the native groups of Tierra del Fuego
. He was one of the most notable Chilean
anthropologists in the first half of the 20th century, with Max Uhle
and Aureliano Oyarzún Navarro.
Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of a main island Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego divided between Chile and Argentina with an area of , and a group of smaller islands including Cape...
. He was one of the most notable Chilean
Chilean people
Chilean people, or simply Chileans, are the native citizens and long-term immigrants of Chile. Chileans are mainly of Spanish and Amerindian descent, with small but significant traces of 19th and 20th century European immigrant origin...
anthropologists in the first half of the 20th century, with Max Uhle
Max Uhle
Max Uhle was a German archaeologist, whose work in Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia at the turn of the Twentieth Century had a significant impact on the practice of archaeology of South America....
and Aureliano Oyarzún Navarro.
External links
- Martin Gusinde in Memoria Chilena
- M Gusinde. Medicina e Higiene de los araucanos Publicaciones del Museo de Etnología y Antropología de Chile. Santiago : El Museo, 1917-1927 (Santiago : Universitaria) 4 v., tomo 1, n° 3, (1917), p. 177-293
- Martin Gusinde, Biography and Bibliography (Project: History of African Studies in Austria) by Dr. Clemens Gütl, Austria