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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press
2016
2016. |
| Series: | Latin American landscapes.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430287606719 |
| 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-- |
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| Item Description: | Revised and expanded version of A biologia militante : o Museu Nacional, especialização científica, divulgação do conhecimento e práticas científicas no Brasil 1926-1945. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816534616 |
| Access: | Open access |
