Indigenous Settlers of the Galpagos

In Indigenous Settlers of the Galpagos: Conservation Law, Race, and Society, Pilar Snchez Voelkl offers an anthropological and historical account about the early arrival and prominent presence of Andean Indigenous people in the Galpagos Islands. Her research traces the stories of the earliest colonizers, who permanently settled on the archipelago, from the 1860s onwards. Snchez Voelkl argues that their journey illustrates the way multiple notions of nature, race, and society interact to shape a social order in Darwins archipelago. Contrary to common portraits of the islands as an example of untouched nature, Indigenous Settlers of the Galpagos provides compelling evidence about the complexities about human and non-human relationships.