Book ID: CBB083525413

Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (2020)

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Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth (Author)


Vanderbilt University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 240
Language: English

Analyzing a wide variety of late-nineteenth-century sources, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality. The writers studied here (an eclectic group of scientists, anthropologists, and novelists, including Estanislao Zeballos, Lucio and Eduarda Mansilla, Ramón Lista, and Florence Dixie) reflect on Indigenous sexual practices, analyze the advisability and effects of interracial sex, and use the language of desire to narrate encounters with Indigenous peoples as they try to scientifically pinpoint Argentina's racial identity and future potential.Kerr's reach extends into history of science, literary studies, and history of anthropology, illuminating a scholarly time and place in which the lines betwixt were much blurrier, if they existed at all.

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Review Ricardo Roque (2021) Review of "Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 847-848). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth
Cartwright, Brad J.
Topiwala, Harshad
Diaz, Roberto Jesus
E. Bennett Jones
Rafael Rogério Nascimento dos Santos
Concepts
Science and race
Science and gender
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Sex
Traditional knowledge
Sexuality
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century, late
20th century
17th century
Places
Argentina
United States
Spain
Mato Grosso (Brazil)
South Asia
Nigeria
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