Marisol Palma Behnke: Diario del tercer viaje de Martin Gusinde a Tierra del Fuego (1921-1922). Introducción y comentario a la traducción y publicación del documento inédito: Parte III.

Abstract

The article introduces and contextualizes the publication and translation of a part of the diary, or logbook, of Martin Gusinde’s third trip to Tierra del Fuego (1921-1922). The text is part of a series of publications (Palma 2018a, 2018b, 2019, 20;20) of the unpublished travel diaries of this German priest and researcher that is being preserved in the archive of the Anthropos Institute, in Sankt Augustin, Germany. This article contextualizes and analyzes Gusinde’s stay in Puerto Remolino, Argentina, during the second half of February 1922 by inquiring into the research methodologies applied during the fieldwork. 

[Tierra del Fuego, Martin Gusinde, the Yagan, field notes]

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