THE SIGHT AND THE THING A BRIEF VISIT OF ERLAND NORDENSKJÖLD TO THE YURAKARÉ INDIANS OF BOLIVIA

Abstract

Meanwhile the South American forest peoples were trespassing from the darkness to the light, many anthropologist were so interested to know them as to collect their things. So as monographs resulted grew the libraries, the things gave wealth to the European Museums. Nordenskjold is a paradigm of this recent period of the anthropological research. The exotic things transported to a furniture broke their links with reality, but provided to European eyes a representative image of the first stage of civilization. The brief visit of Nordensköld to the Bolivian Andean piedemont allows us to provide some data over the past of one of the less known tribes of South America lowlands.