symbolic

action on the earth, 25, 73, 75–76, 88, 196

action on bodies, 12, 88, 180

symbolic death, 134

“tautological gesture” of colonization, 46–47

taxonomies (as linear interpretation of nature), 106–108, 172

“terrenos baldíos,”, 31, 80

teleological epistemology, 48, 65–68, 107, 112

textual homicide, 124–126

textuality, 13, 17, 47–48

textualization, 13–15

the “thing itself,”, 15

Todorov, Tzvetan, xx, 65–66

Toltén River, 3, 154, 156

totalizing function of inscription, xix–xx, 18, 20, 46, 48, 136, 173

Tovar (Venezuela), 52–53

transcription, xv, xvii–xviii, 14, 25–26, 66, 129–171, 175

transgressing textual boundaries, 136, 145, 148

transplant metaphor, 29–30, 47, 150, 161

travel narrativeSee also travelogue, 136, 142, 162

travelogueSee also travel narrative, xxi, 5, 25–26, 90, 96, 103, 118, 119, 121, 123, 126, 129, 144–145, 152, 171, 194, 209

Tregua, 165

triadic constellations, 133

tribal nostalgia. See Germanness–tribal nostalgia

truth, production of, 11–18, 22–26, 46, 57–58, 60, 65–66, 82–83, 93, 116, 122, 131, 135–136, 138–139, 145–146, 148, 151, 154, 161, 163, 173

truth character (of the work), 146

“truth known in advance,”, 65

Ulloa, 184

“Ungeheuer,”, 132, 210

“uninhabited Mapuche territory,”, 80

“Unwegsamkeit,”, 143

utilitarianism and aesthetics, 99

vacillating play (between texts), 145

Valdivia (city)

Isla Teja, 165, 185, 188, 196

military defenses, 3, 131, 178

Valdivia (province), 1, 5, 8, 27, 31, 35–36, 54–55, 59–72, 78, 80–81, 97, 115–117, 143, 148, 152–153, 155–160, 164, 166, 169, 177–178, 181, 186, 188, 192–193, 195, 197, 210, 214–217

Valparaíso, xxii, 34, 35, 39, 184–185, 189–190, 200, 203, 217

Varas, Antonio, 77, 218

Veit, Walter, 56

Velorio del Angelito

observed by Chamisso, 114–115

observed by Philippi, 115–118

Verein zur Centralisation deutscher Auswanderung und Colonisation (Berlin),, 38, 149, 202

vertical gaze. See Apollonian vision

Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín, 33

Villarrica (lake), 168

Viola Portalesia,, 108, 123, 125