Embracing the cordillera: Luis Carranza Ayarza and the development of environmental imaginaries in late-nineteenth-century Peru
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2023
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História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos
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Work, Method of Industry (Psychology) Method of work 19th century National state Identity Hugs Embracing Article Cultural sociology Culture--Social aspects Sociology of culture Cordillera de los Andes Andean Mountain Range Anti (Mountains) Los Andes Andes Ranges Antis (Mountains) Andean Range Andes Range Andes Mountain Ranges Andes Mountains Andean Mountains The Andes Andes Mountain RangeCiter ce document
José Ignacio Mogrovejo Palomo, « Embracing the cordillera: Luis Carranza Ayarza and the development of environmental imaginaries in late-nineteenth-century Peru », História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos, ID : 10670/1.9lfwpk
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"This article examines the relationship between local scientific ideas about the natural world and the economic potential to transform the modern nation-state in Peru during the late nineteenth century. Writings by the Peruvian scientist Luis Carranza indicate how support for a distinctive environmental imaginary of the country’s geography made it possible to conceptualize nature as an essential component of Peruvian identity. As a result, local scientists had to “imaginatively” reshape the nature of the Andes for modernization purposes. The social and political ramifications of these ideas in Carranza’s work were key to the foundation of scientific institutions such as the Geographical Society of Lima."