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Abstract

Grappling with problematics of status and hierarchy, recent literature on the history of the human sciences in Latin America has gone through three overlapping phases. First, the scholarship has reflected a dialogue between Latin American scientists and their European colleagues, characterized by the “center/periphery” model of scientific diffusion. Next, scholars drew on postcolonial theory to undermine the power of the “center” and to recover the role of local agents, including both elites and subalterns. In the wake of numerous studies embracing both models, the way has been cleared to look at multiple dimensions simultaneously. Histories of the human sciences in the complex multicultural societies of Latin America provide an unusually direct path to integration. Moreover, this dynamic and multilayered approach has the potential to address ambivalences about authority and power that have characterized previous analyses of the production and application of knowledge about the human condition.

Department

History

Publication Date

12-1-2013

Journal Title

Isis

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/674947

Document Type

Article

Rights

© 2013 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.

Comments

This is an article published by University of Chicago Press in Isis in 2013, available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/674947

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