Article ID: CBB336339268

Why Chuño Matters: Rethinking the History of Technology in Latin America (July 2022)

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This article examines the over-attention historians pay to innovation and high technology compared to local production through a brief review of the historiography of technology in twentieth-century Latin America. Following Svante Lindqvist's approach to "technological landscapes," it argues that the current history of technology in the region favors change over continuity, thus perpetuating a modernist and industrial perspective of technological dynamics. Based on a case study of chuño (frozen dehydrated potatoes) production and consumption on the Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia, this article shows how historians could incorporate local and long-standing knowledge and use into the history-of-technology canon.

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Authors & Contributors
Amir, Sulfikar
Cowie, Helen
Engels, Jens Ivo
Guerrero, Saúl
Long, Pamela O.
Medina, Eden
Journals
Technology and Culture
Agricultural History
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Engineering Studies
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Publishers
Dumbarton Oaks
Indiana University Press
Reaktion Books
University of Chicago Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Victoria University of Wellington
Concepts
History of technology, as a discipline
Historiography
Indigenous technology
Material culture
Spain, colonies
Silver
People
Cunha, Euclides da
Gillispie, Charles Coulston
Hernández, Francisco
Needham, Joseph
Jaime Juan
Francisco Domínguez y Ocampo
Time Periods
21st century
16th century
20th century
17th century
Early modern
18th century
Places
Bolivia
Peru
Andes
Mexico
Latin America
South America
Institutions
Society for the History of Technology
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