Teaching Resources
Structured as an archive of loss and wonder, Loss and Wonder at the World’s End brings together beings and things (beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, bird song, and more) to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile and Argentina. In doing so, this book archives many forms of loss—including territory, language, sovereignty, and life itself. Yet, the book also archives wonder, or moments when life continues to flourish even in the ruins of these devastations. Materials for this book come from the author’s long-term ethnographic research in the Fuegian archipelago, with settler and Indigenous communities; archival photographs; explorer journals; as well as experiments in natural history and performance studies.
Laura discussing loss and wonder (3 min video)
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Glaciers in the Strait of Magellan, Fuegian Archipelago, 1908. Photograph by Charles Wellington Furlong, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.
Students participating in a course titled “Following in Darwin’s Footsteps.” Beyond the students is the Beagle Channel and the Darwin Range.
Puppup (center) and Chalsoat (far left), with their families and dog. Photograph by Charles Wellington Furlong, Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.
Sheep waiting to be sheared, Estancia Rio Chico.
Double exposure, taken near Lake Fagnano, 1908, by Charles Wellington Furlong.
Camila Marambio wearing the beaver costume, Omora Ethnobotanical Park. Photograph by Christy Gast.
Furlong described the Darwin’s rhea in this photograph as a “dancing tame ostrich.” The bird seems framed by a halo of light.
Orange lichen on the shore of Navarino Island, overlooking the Beagle Channel and the Darwin range of the Andes. Video still by Christy Gast.
These teaching resources were developed by Cole Minsky, a senior at Dartmouth College.