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Paperback Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America Book

ISBN: 0262526204

ISBN13: 9780262526203

Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America

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Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.

The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the global North to the global South--the view of technology as "imported magic." They describe not only alternate pathways for innovation, invention,...

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