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Historiographies of Science Ana Barahona Editor Handbook of the Historiography of Latin American Studies on the Life Sciences and Medicine Historiographies of Science SeriesEditor MichaelR.Dietrich,UniversityofPittsburgh,Pittsburgh,PA,USA Thegoalofthisseriesistoprovidedefinitiveassessmentsofthehistoriographyand thefutureofmajorfieldsandapproacheswithinthehistoryofscience.Eachvolume willaddressthemajortrendsinhistoricalthoughtwithinaparticularfield,themajor debatesamonghistoriansofthatfield,andpromisingnewdirectionsthatmayshape futurescholarship.Eachvolumeisframed interms ofwhatascholarshouldknow about the history of work in that area, if they wanted to make a meaningful and originalcontributiontothatfield.Eachvolumewillbewrittenbyexpertsinthatfield forgraduatestudentsandotherscholarsnewtothehistoryofthatfield.Whileother areas of history have extensive historiographic literatures, history of science has fewerresourcesfromwhichtodraw.Thepaucityofhistoriographicalreflectionsby leadingscholarsinthehistoryofsciencemakesitmoredifficultfornewscholarsto join the field, as they try to assess the traditions of research on their own. These volumes will offer an informed introduction to major issues that will foster new, originalresearchinthehistoryofscience.Editorswillbeaskedtoselecttopicareas/ fields that they think have had a substantial and diverse body of scholarship. Each volumewillbeinformedbydifferentmethods,theories,andperspectivesthatcanbe comparedandcontrastedineachvolume. Moreinformationaboutthisseriesathttp://www.springer.com/series/15837 Ana Barahona Editor Handbook of the Historiography of Latin American Studies on the Life Sciences and Medicine With16Figures Editor AnaBarahona DepartamentodeBiologíaEvolutiva FacultaddeCiencias UNAM MexicoCity,Mexico ISSN2523-7748 ISSN2523-7756(electronic) ISBN978-3-030-74722-0 ISBN978-3-030-74723-7(eBook) ISBN978-3-030-74724-4(printandelectronicbundle) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74723-7 ©SpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2022 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartofthe materialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation, broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformation storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology nowknownorhereafterdeveloped. Theuseofgeneraldescriptivenames,registerednames,trademarks,servicemarks,etc.inthispublication doesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexemptfromtherelevant protectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. Thepublisher,theauthors,andtheeditorsaresafetoassumethattheadviceandinformationinthisbook arebelievedtobetrueandaccurateatthedateofpublication.Neitherthepublishernortheauthorsorthe editorsgiveawarranty,expressedorimplied,withrespecttothematerialcontainedhereinorforanyerrors oromissionsthatmayhavebeenmade.Thepublisherremainsneutralwithregardtojurisdictionalclaims inpublishedmapsandinstitutionalaffiliations. ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG. Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Series Preface While some areas of history have extensive historiographic literatures, history of science has fewer resources from which to draw than most. This scarcity of histo- riographical reflections by leading scholars makes it more challenging for new- comers who must try to assess traditions of historical research as they frame their own contribution to the history of science. As informed introductions to major themes in the writing of the history of science, we hope that this series will both helpfosteroriginalresearchinthehistoryofscienceandfurtherdiscussionregarding historiographictrends. Thegoalofthisseriesistoprovideanassessmentofthehistoriographyandfuture ofmajorapproacheswithinthehistoryofscience.Eachvolumeaddressesthemajor trends in historical thought within a particular field, the major debates among historians of that field, and promising new directions that may shape future schol- arship.Writtenforgraduatestudentsorscholarsnewtothehistoryofscience,each volumeisframedintermsofwhatascholarshouldknowaboutthehistoryofwork in that area, if they wanted to make a meaningful and original contribution to that field. The volumes in the historiography of science series are not intended to provide comprehensivereviewsofeverytopicdiscussedinthehistoryofscience.Editorsof individualvolumesselecttopicareasandfieldsthattheythinkhavehadasubstantial and diverse body of scholarship that have been informed by different methods, theories, and perspectives. Because we would like to foster more conversation abouthistoriography,weseetheidiosyncrasiesofindividualchapters,notasflawed and partial perspectives, but as opportunities to articulate diverse perspectives through an ongoing conversation. These volumes are open for revision through Springer’s Meteor publishing platform. Please engage with the authors and editors andhelppushthishistoriographicdialoguefurther. MichaelR.Dietrich v Volume Preface The aftermath of World War II witnessed a whole new phase of globalization, covering almost every nook and corner of the world, integrating and densifying previoushistoricalinterconnections,andimpactingalmostalldomainsinthesocial sciencesandhumanities,andhistoryofsciencewasnoexception.Sincetheendof the twentieth century, the historiography of science has undergone important changes inits approach to thestudy ofthe life sciencesand medicine. The fieldof scienceandtechnologystudies(STS)hasfocusedontheneedtowritetransnational connectednarrativesbasedonareciprocaltreatmentofglobalandlocalcontextsthat describesthedynamics of scientific practices. Thistransnational approach seeks to abandon the concept of the nation as the main unit of analysis to understand the development of the history of science. It also seeks to move away from narratives focused on Europe and the USA to explain the role of transnational exchange networksandthecirculationofknowledge,people,artifacts,andscientificpractices. This new perspective allows to achieve a novel understanding of science as a historicalphenomenon. As part of the Historiography of Science Series, this volume seeks to provide definitiveassessmentofthehistoriographyofthelifesciencesandmedicineinLatin America. This volume will bring transnational analysis to the center of global historiographical discussions and seek to contribute both empirically and theoreti- callytohistoryofscienceandscienceandtechnology studies inLatinAmerica,to accountforhowtheknowledgeproducedindevelopingcountriesispartofinterna- tional knowledge as it circulates in transnational collaborative networks. Its objec- tive is to make historiographic work (how people have written about a topic) available for new scholars to join the field, with meaningful and original contribu- tions, and forgraduate students and other scholars new to the history of science in Latin America.Thisvolumeprovidesadefinitive assessmentofthehistoriography of the life sciences and medicine in Latin America. It makes historiographic work available for new scholars to join the field and for graduate students and other scholars new to the history of science in Latin America, by means of meaningful andoriginalcontributions. MexicoCity,Mexico AnaBarahona April2022 vii Contents 1 AHistoriographyoftheLifeSciencesandMedicineinLatin AmericainGlobalPerspective ............................ 1 AnaBarahonaandKapilRaj PartI Historiography ..................................... 17 2 FromtheSocialtotheGlobalTurninLatinAmericanHistory ofScience ............................................. 19 MatheusAlvesDuartedaSilvaandMarcosCueto 3 TheHistorian’sCraftinthe“Periphery” .................... 39 MaurizioEsposito PartII NaturalHistoryandEvolution ........................ 63 4 FragmentedMemories .................................. 65 LuzFernandaAzuelaandRodrigoVega-Ortega 5 HistoryandtheQuestforaHistoriographyofScientific ExplorationsandEvolutionismintheAmericanTropics ........ 89 NicolásCuviandDelfínViera 6 Darwin,Evolutionism,andNewApproachestothe HistoriographyofLatinAmerica .......................... 117 AdrianaNovoa 7 ACriticalAnalysisoftheReceptionofDarwinisminLatin AmericaintheNineteenthCentury ........................ 137 JuanManuelRodríguez-Caso 8 Darwinism ............................................ 157 RosauraRuiz-GutiérrezandRicardoNoguera-Solano 9 HowtoReadAmeghino’sFilogenia? ....................... 183 GustavoCaponi ix x Contents 10 PalaeontologyinSouthAmerica ........................... 205 IrinaPodgorny 11 HistoriographyofBiogeographyinMexico .................. 225 FabiolaJuárez-Barrera,AnaBarahona,andCarlosPérez-Malváez PartIII NaturalHistoryandArt ............................ 245 12 BetweenHistoryofArtandHistoryofScience ............... 247 InekePhaf-Rheinberger 13 JoséMaríaVelasco’sPaleontologicalLandscapes:TheCirculation andAppropriationofDeepTimeThinkinginMexicanPorfirian Geology .............................................. 269 MaríaRuiz-y-LimónandEricaTorrens-Rojas 14 WritingtheHistoryofAnimalsinLatinAmerica ............. 293 ChristianReiß PartIV Agriculture ...................................... 313 15 AgricultureAsConnectivity .............................. 315 LeidaFernandez-Prieto 16 South-SouthExchangeNetworksandtheCirculationof Knowledgein1920sMexico .............................. 339 AlexandraOrtizWallner 17 EvaluatingtheGreenRevolutionDominantNarrativefor LatinAmerica:Technology,Geopolitics,andInstitutions ....... 355 WilsonPicado 18 SteeringLatinAmerica’sEconomicRelationshipwiththe UnitedStates .......................................... 375 MichaelK.Bess PartV RaceStudies,Medicine,andGenetics ................. 393 19 AShortVersionoftheLongDurationStoryofMexican SuiGenerisRacism ..................................... 395 OliviaGall 20 ACriticalComparisonofDifferentIntellectualHistories (MexicanandAnglo-AmericanHistoriographies)on“Race” .... 419 EricaTorrens-RojasandJuanManuelRodríguez-Caso 21 MalleableBodies ....................................... 443 GabrielaSotoLaveaga,LucíaGranadosRiveros,andSalinaSuri Contents xi 22 Bodies,Environments,andRace .......................... 467 KarinAlejandraRosemblatt 23 TheFrogandtheVine .................................. 487 ErnestoSchwartz-MarinandAmeliaFiske 24 EvolutionaryGeneticsinBrazil ........................... 505 AldoMellenderdeAraújo Index .................................................... 527
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