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Author Post: Finding Indigenous Women in Nineteenth-Century Argentine Anthropology
May. 15, 2020—As part of Vanderbilt UP’s celebration of the Latin American Studies Association LASA2020 virtual congress this week, we welcome a guest post today from Ashley Elizabeth Kerr, author of Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860–1910). Finding Indigenous Women in Nineteenth-Century Argentine Anthropology by Ashley Elizabeth Kerr At some point in my research...
Excerpt: Sex, Skulls, and Citizens
Mar. 16, 2020—Vanderbilt UP has a new book out this week—Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860–1910) by Ashley Elizabeth Kerr. 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...