Geopolitics, culture, and the scientific imaginary in Latin America / edited by Maria del Pilar Blanco and Joanna Page.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blanco, María del Pilar, editor.

Page, Joanna, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Latin America--History.

Science.

Science--Social aspects--Latin America--History.

Science--Political aspects--Latin America--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2020.

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.

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 Perez 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 Jose 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68340-215-4

1-68340-176-X

OCLC:

1117310635