Survey of Research on Latin America by United States Scientists and Institutions
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Latin American Anthropology
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 146
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Latin American Anthropology
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 146
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Latin American Anthropology
Publisher: National Academies
Published: 1946
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Council of Learned Societies
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 130
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Library of Congress. Hispanic Foundation
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Juan José Saldaña
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009-06-03
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0292774753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Science in Latin America has roots that reach back to the information gathering and recording practices of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. Spanish and Portuguese conquerors and colonists introduced European scientific practices to the continent, where they hybridized with local traditions to form the beginnings of a truly Latin American science. As countries achieved their independence in the nineteenth century, they turned to science as a vehicle for modernizing education and forwarding "progress." In the twentieth century, science and technology became as omnipresent in Latin America as in the United States and Europe. Yet despite a history that stretches across five centuries, science in Latin America has traditionally been viewed as derivative of and peripheral to Euro-American science. To correct that mistaken view, this book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of science in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present. Eleven leading Latin American historians assess the part that science played in Latin American society during the colonial, independence, national, and modern eras, investigating science's role in such areas as natural history, medicine and public health, the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, politics and nation-building, educational reform, and contemporary academic research. The comparative approach of the essays creates a continent-spanning picture of Latin American science that clearly establishes its autonomous history and its right to be studied within a Latin American context.
Author: Rosendo Adolfo Gomez
Publisher: Tucson, University of Arizona P
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the National Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)
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Published: 1964
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Brazil. Embaixada (U.S.)
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eden Medina
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2014-08-15
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 0262027453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South. The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the global North to the global South—the view of technology as “imported magic.” They describe not only alternate pathways for innovation, invention, and discovery but also how ideas and technologies circulate in Latin American contexts and transnationally. The contributors' explorations of these issues, and their examination of specific Latin American experiences with science and technology, offer a broader, more nuanced understanding of how science, technology, politics, and power interact in the past and present. The essays in this book use methods from history and the social sciences to investigate forms of local creation and use of technologies; the circulation of ideas, people, and artifacts in local and global networks; and hybrid technologies and forms of knowledge production. They address such topics as the work of female forensic geneticists in Colombia; the pioneering Argentinean use of fingerprinting technology in the late nineteenth century; the design, use, and meaning of the XO Laptops created and distributed by the One Laptop per Child Program; and the development of nuclear energy in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. Contributors Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Morgan G. Ames, Javiera Barandiarán, João Biehl, Anita Say Chan, Amy Cox Hall, Henrique Cukierman, Ana Delgado, Rafael Dias, Adriana Díaz del Castillo H., Mariano Fressoli, Jonathan Hagood, Christina Holmes, Matthieu Hubert, Noela Invernizzi, Michael Lemon, Ivan da Costa Marques, Gisela Mateos, Eden Medina, María Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Hugo Palmarola, Tania Pérez-Bustos, Julia Rodriguez, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt, Edna Suárez Díaz, Hernán Thomas, Manuel Tironi, Dominique Vinck