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Measuring Skulls: Race and Science in Vicente Riva Palacio's México a través de los siglos
Author(s) -
AVILESGALAN MIGUEL ANGEL
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2009.00333.x
Subject(s) - race (biology) , humanities , mexico city , context (archaeology) , national monument , politics , latin americans , history , art , sociology , anthropology , gender studies , political science , archaeology , law
This article discusses the use of the term ‘race’ as a corpus of racial theories sustained by scientific knowledge of biological human evolution in late nineteenth‐century Mexico. It also explores how scientific and political discourses have constructed equivalent notions of race and national subjects, and how racial thought is imbedded in nation‐building processes within the context of knowledge and social differentials in Mexico's national history. This is carried out through an examination of the second chapter of the second volume of Mexico a través de los siglos (Mexico Throughout the Centuries), by Mexican historian Vicente Riva Palacio (1832–1896), seen through the perspective of cultural history.