ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relationship between landscape and death, considering that death may become a focus of extreme concern under certain historical circumstances and that the decision of studying the connection between both of these terms can provide insight into some aspects of the spatial dimension of death that would otherwise go unnoticed. It also focuses on the spatial dimension of the practices and experiences connected with the disposition of the bodies and mourning, stressing the relationship between the deceased and the survivors. The archaeological work at the mission sought to study the sociocultural context of that institution and some aspects of the Selk’nam tradition. In Selk’nam tradition, the landscape of death was bound to a general form of mobility. Since death found a group in different points, the disposal of the dead did not occur in a single location.
