Susana Rotker Captive Women: Oblivi...

Susana Rotker Captive Women: Oblivion and Memory in Argentina. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P 2002 236 pp ISBN 0-8166-4030-0 $1895

Susana Rotker's analysis of the historical phenomenon of widespread kidnapping of white women at Argentine Indians in the nineteenth hundred is an important addition to scholarship treating the "disappearing" of racial diversity from the discourse of nation building in Argentina. Although Rotker is unable to provide these women a history, she be subsequent tos in accounting for their disappearance from the historical record. It is important