Island of Truth, 23–25

“Italy of South America,”, 55

Jordanova, Ludmilla, 107, 161, 165

Kant, Immanuel, 23–25, 106, 145, 147, 181

Kindermann, Franz (father), 39

Kindermann, Franz (son), 27, 35–37, 39–42, 45, 47, 62, 68, 79, 149, 151–152, 158, 160–163, 165, 167, 179, 184–190, 193–194, 196–197, 200

kinshipSee also familial networks; genealogical discourse, xix, 29, 48, 107, 161–162, 175

Kittler, Friedrich, 12, 135, 180

knowledge (production of ), 23–25, 60, 64–66, 71–78, 93, 103–112, 131–134, 138–143

Königliches Museum, 7, 97, 113, 183, 190, 202–203

“Kulturwanderung,”See also Germanness–deterritorialization of, 41

lack of transparency, 67

La Fábrica, 165

landscape

aestheticizing of, 54–56, 97, 135, 145, 150

linear ordering of, 71, 77, 88, 165

social fantasy projected onto, 58–63, 65–68

land speculation, 39–40, 78–79, 89, 187

land titles, 42, 79, 188

language and subjecthood, 92–93, 113

language as interiority, 92–93

latent colonial desiresSee also precolonialism; proto–colonialism, 23, 96

Lévi–Strauss, Claude, 72–73

Ley sobre tierras y terrenos baldíos,, 37, 79–80

Liga chileno-alemana, xvi

Lincke, Gottlob Friedrich, 81–83, 86, 199

Line of Harnecker, 72

Line of Hoffmann, 72

Line of Lagreze, 72

Line of Muñoz, 72

Line of Reutter, 72

Line of the Chilote, 72

lineage, 47, 166

linearity

and familySee also filiation, 48

and science, 106–107, 172

and space, 71, 77, 79, 83–84, 118

liminal text, 145

linear continuities, 71–78

literary murder. See textual homicide

literary sphere, 90

Llanquihue (lake)

descriptions of, 54, 83, 131, 137, 140–141, 150, 211–212

development of, 5, 30, 36, 72, 75, 178

expeditions to, 4–5, 97, 129–137, 140–141, 150–151, 167–169, 198

legal status of, xxii, 45–46, 80, 173

legends, xxii, 133

maps, 49, 74, 130, 135, 137, 142–143, 148–151, 164–166, 213, 215, 219–220