Description
Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section, 2021 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.
Author: Ashley Elizabeth Kerr
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 03/15/2020
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
ISBN13: 9780826522726
ISBN10: 0826522726
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 19th Century
- Science | History
About the Author
Ashley Elizabeth Kerr is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Idaho.