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1 online resource (339 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Section I. Latin America's Scientific Landscapes. Introduction -- Bone Tales: Patagonian Monsters and the Paleontological Imagination / Gabriela Nouzeilles -- Nation as Laboratory: Rethinking Science Writing in Mexico's República Restaurada (1868-1876) / María del Pilar Blanco -- Natural Histories of the Anthropocene: Santiago del Estero, Argentina, in the 1930s / Jens Andermann -- Section II. Latin America as the Site of Knowledge Production. Introduction -- Empathy, Patients' Needs and Therapeutic Innovation in the Medical Literature of Early Viceregal Mexico / Yarí Pérez Marín -- Between Potosí and Nuevo Potosí: Mineral Riches and Observations of Nature in the Colonial Andes, ca. 1596-1797 / Heidi V. Scott -- Indigenous Medicine and Nation-Building: Hermilio Valdizan's Medical Project / Edward Chauca -- Section III. Science and the Modern Nation. Introduction -- Postcolonial Social Sciences of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: Land Surveys, Comparative Political Sociology, and the Malleability of Race / Lina del Castillo -- "Una nueva y gloriosa nación": Patriotic Lyrics and Scientific Culture in the Forging of Political Emancipation in Río de la Plata / Miguel de Asua -- Inventions and Discoveries in Letters to Perón: Dialogue and Autonomy in the Popular Technical Imagination in Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s / Hernán Comastri -- Section IV. Utopian Convergences between Science and the Arts. Introduction -- Modernismo, Spiritualism, and Science in Argentina at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Analysis of National Magazines / Soledad Quereilhac -- Doing Poetry with Science: Unthinking Knowledge in Sarduy, Perlongher, and Eielson / Julio Prieto -- The Science of Reading Fiction: New (Post-Darwinian) Metaphors to Live By / Joanna Page -- Section V. Science, Epistemology, and the Critique of Modernity. Introduction -- Laboratories of Universality: A Genealogy of Solitary Latin American Inventors / Carlos Fonseca Suárez -- The Politics of Relativity: Radical Epistemologies and the Revolutionary Potential of the Scientific Imaginary in José Carlos Mariátegui / Brais Outes-Leon -- Beyond Empiricism: Rolando García's Theory of Complex Systems and the Epistemological Consequences of a Non-linear Universe / Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra. |
| Summary |
"Challenging the common view that Latin America has lagged behind Europe and North America in the global history of science, this volume reveals that the region has long been a center for scientific innovation and imagination. It highlights the important relationship between science, politics, and culture in Latin American history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- Latin America -- History.
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Science. |
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Latin America. |
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History. |
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Science -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History.
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Science -- Social aspects. |
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Science -- Political aspects -- Latin America -- History.
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Science -- Political aspects. |
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Science and the humanities -- Latin America -- History.
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Science and the humanities. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Blanco, María del Pilar, editor.
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Page, Joanna, 1974- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Geopolitics, culture, and the scientific imaginary in Latin America. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2020 9781683401483 (DLC) 2019034407 |
| ISBN |
9781683401766 (electronic book) |
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168340176X (electronic book) |
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9781683401483 (hardcover) |
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