3 options
Activist Biology The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil / Regina Horta Duarte ; translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duarte, Regina Horta, author.
- Series:
- Latin American landscapes.
- Latin American landscapes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museu Nacional (Brazil).
- Biology--Brazil--History--20th century.
- Biology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations, photographs.
- Place of Publication:
- University of Arizona Press 2016
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Higher Voice of Biology is the story of a group of biologists at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro who joined the drive to renew the Brazilian nation, claiming as their weapon the voice of their fledgling field. It offers a portrait of science as a creative and transformative pathway. This book will intrigue anyone fascinated by environmental history and Latin American political and social life in the 1920s and 1930s-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Activist biology
- Chapter 2. A miniature of the fatherland
- Chapter 3. The making of a biologist
- Conclusion
- Timeline of Brazilian history (1889-1945).
- Notes:
- Revised and expanded version of A biologia militante : o Museu Nacional, especialização científica, divulgação do conhecimento e práticas científicas no Brasil 1926-1945.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780816534616
- 0816534616
- OCLC:
- 959648325
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.