Living on the edge/ Claudia Briones and José Luis Lanata -- Biological anthropology in Fuego-Patagonia / Ricardo A. Guichón -- The Pampean foragers / Gustavo G. Politis -- The archaeology of Patagonia / Luis Alberto Borrero -- The world's southernmost foragers: the native diversity of Tierra del Fuego / José Luis Lanata -- Indigenous history of northwest Patagonia: regional identities during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / María Teresa Boschín -- Social strategies in a situation of interethnic contact: the fort del Carmen, Ro̕ Negro, case study / Lidia R. Nacuzzi -- The Tehuelche of Patagonia as chronicled by travelers and explorers in the nineteenth century / Alejandro Pero -- The last step in the process of "Araucanization of the Pampa," 1810-1880: attempts of ethnic ideologization and "nationalism" among the Mapuche and Araucanized Pampean aborigines / Martha Bechis -- Building an image of the Indian people from Patagonia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: science and christening / María Andrea Nicoletti and Pedro Navarro Floria -- The late-nineteenth-century crisis in the survival of the Magellan-Fueguian littoral natives / Luis Abel Orquera.