The Anthropocene in Antarctica. Considering "fixed" and "more fluid" perspectives of analysis

• Main Authors: Zarankin, Andrés, Salerno, Melisa Anabella
• Other Authors: Torres de Souza, Marcos André, Menezes Costa, Diogo
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: ANTHROPOCENE; ANTARCTICA; ARCHAEOLOGY; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6; Argentina; Saavedra; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/160679

Starting in 1995, our research project seeks to learn more about human presence in Antarctica; in particular, though not exclusively, about sealers´ encounters with the South Shetland Islands in the nineteenth century. In this chapter we discuss the material dimension of the Anthropocene in Antarcti...