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- Title
Seeds, Dams, and Khipus: Latin America's Eclectic Recent History of Technology.
- Authors
Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pedro
- Abstract
Scholarship on Latin America's history of technology has expanded significantly in recent years. By reviewing articles in English- and Spanish-language journals from 2012 to the first half of 2023, we illustrate the emerging themes, geographies, and methodologies in this literature. The four main themes we identify are industrialization, institutions and policies, infrastructure, and moving beyond technological adaptation. We also highlight two emerging themes: Indigenous technologies and the circulation of knowledge. We conclude that the scholarship has generally moved in three directions: the study of technologies associated with traditional economic activities in the region (e.g. monocrop agriculture), national industrialization and modernization processes, and cases that demonstrate alternative ways of knowing the world and how communities use these types of knowledge. We suggest that deepening the connections between these three lines of research could be fruitful for future work.
- Subjects
HISTORY of technology; LATIN American history; DAMS; ECONOMIC activity
- Publication
Technology & Culture, 2024, Vol 65, Issue 2, p447
- ISSN
0040-165X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/tech.2024.a926311