collecting, 5, 21, 34, 90–92, 96, 97–99, 102–107, 113, 120–121, 154, 203, 205, 208–209

colonia,, xxii

colonial fantasiesSee also colonialist desire, 22, 58, 61

colonialist desireSee also colonial fantasies, xii, 11, 22–23, 25–26, 40, 51–52, 56, 58, 61, 64–67, 78, 96, 99, 135, 138, 154, 170, 173

colonization law of 1845. See Ley sobre tierras y terrenos baldíos

Columbus, Christopher, 65–67, 112

commodification of specimens. See collecting

compilation map, 151–152

complicit reader, 29, 91, 94, 99, 108–109, 126, 175

conjunction of texts, 17, 21, 106, 144–160

consuls, 34–35, 45, 83, 190

con-texts, 144–160

copy (versus original)See also original (versus copy), xviii, xxi, 57

Corral, 37, 63, 70, 185

Cosgrove, Denis, 59–60, 139

counterhegemonic practice, 88

“creative writings,”, 136

creole, 30

criollo,, 30–32, 83, 114, 119, 124, 165

crisis of vision, 67

Culler, Jonathan, 18–19

cultural identity, 150, 155–157, 166

“cultures of kinship,”, 161

Cunco (people), 78, 80–81, 156–157, 197–198, 216, 219

Currieco, Juan, 81–82, 198–199

Darwin, Charles, 46, 77, 152, 178, 205

death, fear of, 71, 86

“débuting oneself,”, 92

deconstruction, xviii–xix, 18, 20, 25, 62, 133, 155, 169, 171

dehumanization (of the natives), 82, 132

deictic event, 147–148

“déjà lu,”, 19, 63

Deleuze, Gilles, 57

Delgado, Benito, 142, 214

Derrida, Jacques, 15–16, 20, 25, 72–73, 77, 145–147

descriptive map, 140

desire. See colonialist desire

Deutsch–Chilenischer Bund. See Liga chileno–alemana

Deutschtum,, xxii

différance,, 11, 16, 73

direct observationSee also Anschauung, 61, 63, 133, 135, 151

discourse network, 12, 180

discovery (trope), 96, 103, 105, 129, 144, 148, 152, 169, 173, 210

disembodied gaze, 58, 60, 68

disintegration of the subject, 86

displacement of nativesSee also erasure of natives, 26, 78, 82, 171–172, 210

distribution of texts. See host

doctrine, 13, 15, 18, 25

Döll, Wilhelm, 37, 151, 179, 185, 207, 212, 218

Domeyko, Ignacy, 32–33, 142, 151, 183, 212–213, 218

Driver, Felix, 133

Duncan, James, 54