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02916aam a2200421 i 4500 001 5201711E8E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200505011818 008 190711t20202020tnua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019027141 020 $a 0826522726 020 $a 9780826522726 020 $a 0826522718 020 $a 9780826522719 035 $a (OCoLC)1108813081 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YAM $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a s-ag--- 050 00 $a GN564 A7 K47 2020 100 1 $a Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth, $d 1984- $e author. 245 10 $a Sex, skulls, and citizens : $b gender and racial science in Argentina (1860-1910) / $c Ashley Elizabeth Kerr. 264 1 $a Nashville, Tennessee : $b Vanderbilt University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 229 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Scientific engagements : women, sex, and racial science -- 1. Inappropriate relations : indigenous private lives as a matter of public concern -- 2. Sex and specimen : desiring indigenous bodies -- 3. Displaying gender : indigenous peoples in the Museuo de La Plata -- 4. Degenerates or new beginnings? : theorizing racial mixture in fiction -- 5. Defiant captives and warrior queens : women repurpose scientific racism -- Conclusion: An enduring legacy : the nineteenth century in the twentieth and twenty-first. 520 $a "Based on analysis of a wide variety of late-nineteenth-century sources, this book argues that indigenous and white women shaped Argentine scientific racism as well as its application to projects aiming to create a white, civilized nation. The writers studied here, scientists, anthropologists, and novelists, including Estanislao Zeballos, Lucio and Eduarda Mansilla, Ramon 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Ethnology $z Argentina $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Indigenous peoples $z Argentina $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Race discrimination $z Argentina $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Sex discrimination $z Argentina $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Sex $z Argentina $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a White nationalism $z Argentina $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Argentina $x History $x History $y 19th century. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth, 1984- $t Sex, skulls, and citizens $d Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2019] $z 9780826522733 $w (DLC) 2019027142 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806023337.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5201711E8E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search