2026/05/04 by Guadalupe Canale · 1 voice
Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and Rock Art Studies #Indigenous Studies and Ecology #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1515/bot-2025-0101
openalex publication_date 2026/05/04 · openalex created_date 2026/05/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/14
Abstract This paper compiles and contextualises the existing known relationships that the Yaghan, or Yamana, peoples had with Macrocystis pyrifera , the giant kelp so abundant in Fuegian waters. It utilises Reverend Thomas Bridges’ Yamana-English dictionary, compiled during the 1800s, as primary ethnohistorical source to structure and weave together mentions of kelp in other ethnographical sources for the area, and material culture insights from the extensive archaeological work carried out in the area of the Onashaga, or Beagle Channel. Notes about compared ethnophycological relations from elsewhere in the world are included when relevant, to suggest certain common themes in the environmental perception of kelp forests in sub-polar areas.