Magallania
Volume 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-36

Sexual trade among Aonikenk women and outsiders [El comercio sexual entre las mujeres Aónikenk y los foráneos] (Article)

Martinic M.B.*
  • a Centro de Estudios del Hombre Austral, Instituto de la Patagonia, Universidad de Magallanes, Casilla de correo 113-D, Punta Arenas, Magallanes, Chile

Abstract

New records that confirm as authentic the exercise of commercial sex among women of the Aonikenk ethnic group and foreign sailors, are presented. Mostly seal hunters and whalers, who often ended up in the Patagonian coast of the Strait of Magellan planning to establish relations with indigenous people. Some moment in between 1830 and 1850 decades is indicated as the likely period of occurrence, and some considerations and comments on the uniqueness and novelty of the subject are presented.

Author Keywords

Aonikenk Patagonia Sexual trade

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-57349129622&partnerID=40&md5=bb9734ac08084cdf630cf47ae8cd0f69
ISSN: 07180209
Original Language: Spanish