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Constructing a Narrative: The History of Science and Technology in Latin America
Author(s) -
Portuondo María
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00579.x
Subject(s) - historiography , narrative , latin americans , principal (computer security) , field (mathematics) , history of science , history of technology , focus (optics) , narrative review , history , engineering ethics , epistemology , sociology , psychology , literature , engineering , political science , computer science , art , archaeology , philosophy , law , physics , mathematics , optics , pure mathematics , psychotherapist , operating system
This article provides a general introduction to the historiography of the history of science and technology in Latin America and presents an overview of the field's principal themes, with especial focus on how these have been addressed in English‐language historical works. It engages the problems associated with constructing synthetic historical narratives and suggests ways of addressing these by using micro‐histories to explain the relationship between the local, the national, and the transnational within the analytical framework afforded by intellectual history, history of science and of technology.