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.

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Metadata

  • isbn
    978-0-8165-4170-6
  • publisher
    University of Arizona Press
  • publisher place
    Tucson, AZ
  • rights
    CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  • rights holder
    The Arizona Board of Regents
  • series title
    Latin American Landscapes