Abstract

This article identifies a number of historiographical approaches on Tierra del Fuego, considering that the focus on indigenous communities does not allows to define clear disciplinary boundaries. At the same time, it argues that renewed gazes were expressed rather late when compared to other regions of Argentina and Chile. Spatial marginality and the peculiar type of colonization posited the historiographical discourses in a secondary position, regarding the continuity of anthropology and archaeology; at the same time, the Isla Grande was relegated even when Patagonia was studied as a whole, insular and continental