The Seventh Circle (in the Chaco), or Murder Considered as a Method

Renowned explorer Jules Crevaux, ´the South American Livingstone´ who had just successfully crossed Guiana, the Amazon, and the Orinoco, was murdered by unknown indigenous actors along the Pilcomayo River on April 27, 1892. The text discusses different analytical approaches to the event, the implications of its exegesis and reinterpretation for comparative anthropology and the historiographical method, and above all the unprecedented possibility that it offers to lay the foundations of an authentic ethno-history in indigenous key.