Activist biology the National Museum, politics, and nation building in Brazil
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 b...
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The University of Arizona Press
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Latin American landscapes
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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-- 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) |
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| Beschreibung: | 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 (pages 213-237)and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 249 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780816532018 978-0-8165-3201-8 081653201X 0-8165-3201-X |