Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts (1845-1909) brings together
essays, letters, short-stories, and public lectures by travelers,
scientists, writers, and politicians about Darwin and the theory of
evolution in nineteenth century Argentina. This selection of texts
provides a thorough overview of the socio-ideological implications
of the theory of evolution in South America, as well as the
intellectual debate this scientific theory promoted in the
discourses of fiction, law, history, and medicine in the formation
of modern Argentina. Some writers in this book considered the
theory of evolution to be Argentinean because Darwin first
conceived his theory traveling in the Beagle, across the big
cemetery of glyptodont and megatherium fossils on the pampas and in
Patagonia. This anthology includes texts from William H. Hudson,
Francisco Muniz, Florentino Ameghino, Eduardo Holmberg, Domingo F.
Sarmiento, Hermann Burmeister, the Perito Moreno, Leopoldo Lugones,
Jose Maria Ramos Mejia, and Jose Ingenieros, among others. Many of
these texts have not been translated to English or reprinted until
this edition, which was originally published with fewer texts in
Spanish in 2008. Leila Gomez s introduction reconstructs the
historical-scientific contexts of the Darwinist debate in
Argentina, the role of paleontology as modern discipline in South
American countries, and the tensions between metropolitan and local
scientific knowledge. Both the anthology and the introduction
present a panorama of Darwin and evolution in Argentina, and the
complex mechanism of inclusion and exclusion of indigenous, African
descendants, mestizos, and immigrants in the modern nation.
Darwinism in Argentina provides critical perspectives on
evolutionism in South America that will interest students and
specialists in literature, history, and science.
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