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Transpacific Americas
This volume explores cultural, social and economic connections between the Americas and the South Pacific. It reaches beyond Sino-American collaborations to focus on rather neglected, and sometimes invisible, Southern linkages, asking how these connections originated and have developed over time, which local responses they have generated, and what impact these processes have in the region in terms of representational forms and strategies, new cultural practices, and empowerment of individuals in (post)colonial contexts. The volume also compares and contrasts intriguing parallels of politics and identity formation. By extending the focus beyond East Asia to the Southern Pacific region, includ...
Affectual Erasure
Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film. Affectual Erasure examines how Argentine cinema has represented Indigenous peoples throughout a period spanning roughly a century. Cynthia Margarita Tompkins interrelates her discussion of films with the ethnographic context of the Indigenous peoples represented and an analysis of the affective dimensions at play. These emotions underscore the inherent violence of generic conventions, as well as the continued political violence preventing Indigenous peoples from access to their ancestral lands and cultural mores. Tompkins explores a broad range of movies beginning in the silent period and includes bo...
Socio-political Histories of Latin American Statistics
This book brings together recent research on the sociopolitical history of Latin American statistics from the nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. Reflecting the influence of social constructivism in the social sciences, it sheds new light on the historical emergence and development of both statistical reasoning and practices within a region traditionally seen as a passive consumer of foreign-produced theories and methods. By analysing the processes of institutionalisation of statistics in different national spaces, from Mexico to the Southern Cone, these studies show the unique ways in which Latin America adapted and used this modern tool of government and social classific...
Araucanía-Norpatagonia
Investigadores sociales que habitan la Patagonia argentina y chilena discuten acerca del territorio y sus representaciones, abordando temas como los estudios sobre las fronteras, los mapas, las migraciones, la interculturalidad y las religiosidades.
UNA EXCURSIÓN A LOS INDIOS RANQUELES DE LUCIO V. MANSILLA
El coronel Lucio Victorio Mansilla residía en la Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto (provincia de Córdoba) cuando entre 30 de marzo y el 17 de abril de 1870 realizó, con un pequeño grupo de hombres, el viaje hacia el sur con el que pretendía confirmar en las propias tolderías de los ranqueles el pacto que entre estos y el gobierno argentino él mismo había impulsado, para poner fin a las violentas incursiones de los indios que asolaban los territorios próximos a la frontera. El diario La Tribuna de Buenos Aires publicó el relato de aquella aventura, en entregas que simulaban ser cartas y que ese mismo año fueron editadas bajo el título Una excursión a los indios ranqueles. Así surgió una de las obras fundamentales de la literatura argentina del siglo XIX: testimonio de la fascinante experiencia vivida, analizaba la historia reciente y revelaba las difíciles relaciones entre indios y cristianos.
Sex, Skulls, and Citizens
PROSE Awards Subject Category Finalist, 2021—Biological Anthropology, Ancient History, and Archaeology 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.
Ruling the Savage Periphery
A provocative case that “failed states” along the periphery of today’s international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial design. From the Afghan frontier with British India to the pampas of Argentina to the deserts of Arizona, nineteenth-century empires drew borders with an eye toward placing indigenous people just on the edge of the interior. They were too nomadic and communal to incorporate in the state, yet their labor was too valuable to displace entirely. Benjamin Hopkins argues that empires sought to keep the “savage” just close enough to take advantage of, with lasting ramifications for the global nation-state order. Hopkins theorizes and explores f...
Utopías urbanas
Indaga la relación entre la emergencia de la ciudad americana como realidad geopolítica y la construcción del ideal utópico en diversas escrituras latinoamericanas, atendiendo a la diversidad que entraña el ideario utópico en lo ficcional, ideológico e intelectual, y a la configuración de una sociedad perfecta e idealizada.
