The devil and modernity in late nineteenth-century Buenos Aires

Americas

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 221-233

  Ruggiero, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; CRIMINAL LAW; CRIMINOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOPATHY; WITCHCRAFT;

ARGENTINA; CRIMINAL LAW; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; SEX OFFENSES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; SOCIAL CHANGE; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 65849448937     PISSN: 00031615     EISSN: 15336247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tam.2002.0119     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. Jeffrey Burton Russell, Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World (Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1986), p. 213. For the most part, Russell argues, the nineteenth century used the devil to satirize modern man and the human condition (p. 202)
2. Marie-Christine Leps, Apprehending the Criminal: The Production of Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Discourse (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1992), pp. 35-36
3. David G. Horn, "This Norm Which is Not One: Reading the Female Body in Lombroso's Anthropology" in Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture, eds., Jennifer Terry and Jacqueline UrIa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995): 109-28; pp.112 and 116
4. This was the first book of Lombroso's to be translated into English and interestingly all references to sexuality, fertility, and menstruation were edited out and the sections on the "normal" woman were omitted. Asunción Lavrin's work explains well the other and contradictory view of women as repositories of moral superiority in comparison to men. Asunción Lavrin, Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940 (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. 48-49
5. Jose Luis Peset and Mariano Peset, Lombroso y la escuela positivista italiana (Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, 1975), pp. 640-641
6. Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero, The Female Offender (New York and London: D. Appleton, 1903
7. original La donna delinquente: laprostituta e la donna normale [Turin: Roux, 1893]), pp. 148, 151-52
8. Russell, Mephistopheles, p. 208
9. José Maria Ramos Mejía, "La fauna de la miseria," Archives de Psiquiatria, Criminologia y Cien cias Afines 3 (1904): 385-405; p. 389
10. Luis María Drago, El poder marital (thesis, Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales; [Buenos Aires: El Diario, 1882] 47, pp. 12-17)
11. Peset, Lombroso, pp. 632, 643, 650
12. Jeffrey Burton Russell, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984), p. 249
13. Russell, The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1977), pp. 68, 73
14. It is interesting in this regard that in Fernando Cervantes' investigation of the seventeenth century, people who sought the devil's help in sexual matters were not necessarily rewarded; and that in the eighteenth century, the Inquisition became indifferent to sexual tales of the devil; Fernando Cervantes, The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994), p. 87, 126
15. AGN,TC, 1 ,A,6,1886, case brought by Gerardo Arciello and María Esperanza against José Apicelli for serious injury. Sandra Gayol has discussed this case in Sociabilidad en Buenos Aires. Hombres, honor y cafés 1862-1910 (Buenos Aires: Signo, 2000), pp. 191-97
16. Lombroso and Ferrero, Female Offender, pp. 219-25
17. G. S. Rousseau, "'A Strange Pathology': Hysteria in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800" in Hysteria Beyond Freud, eds., Sander L. Gilman et alia (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1993), p. 117
18. José Ingenieros, Obras complétas, vol. 2, Histeria y sugestión (Buenos Aires: Mar Oceano, 1962), p. 15
19. Jorge Salessi, Médicos, maleantes y maricas (Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo, 1995), p. 57
20. Benigno Trigo, "Crossing the Boundaries of Madness: Criminology and Figurative Language in Argentina (1878-1920)," Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 6:1 (1997): 7-20; p. 9