Activist Biology
The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil
by Regina Horta Duarte
Activist 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.
Metadata
- isbn978-0-8165-4170-6
- publisherUniversity of Arizona Press
- publisher placeTucson, AZ
- rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- rights holderThe Arizona Board of Regents
- series titleLatin American Landscapes