Bones of the Nation
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In this essay I argue the joint exhibition of 19th century bodies and bones along with Pleistocene bones displaced contemporary Indigenous genocide into a remote past. The broader argument of the essay links the network of iron building parts, bones, cattle, and grain to understand Argentina as a settler colonial nation and the role of Indigenous genocide in global processes of industrialization.
in Manifest 3: Bigger than Big