Instituto de la Ciencia y Tecnología en América Latina (ICTAL) - Tag - CaribePortal dedicado a la ciencia, el desarrollo, y los derechos humanos... 2024-03-18T13:03:04-04:00urn:md5:c3c53f2c54ac152a71614d9b9f660d3dDotclearInterview with Rebecca J. Scott: On Latin Americaurn:md5:5e1b373ee08f10ee6105193f5230ddff2023-08-03T11:52:00-04:002023-08-03T11:52:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroCaribe <p><br />
Source: History News Network</p>
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<p>Did you always want to be a historian? When did you make the decision and why?</p>
<p>Like many members of my generation, I followed a winding path toward a professional career. I wrote a master’s thesis in 17th century English women’s history, worked as a proofreader for a local newspaper, taught secondary school, and even did a brief stint as a cutter in a fish-packing plant before enrolling in a doctoral program. I had been involved in the anti-war movement as an undergraduate, and I think it was the 1973 coup d’état in Chile that pushed me toward the full-time study of Latin America. During my first year as a doctoral student I got an hourly research job working for Ira Berlin and Herbert Gutman, alongside my course work in Latin American history with Stanley Stein. All three of them were charismatic and committed scholars, and major historians of slave societies. In retrospect, it is no wonder that I was quickly persuaded that the study of slavery and emancipation was both urgent and fascinating.</p>
<p>What are you hoping the reader will get out of your book?</p>
<p>The central focus of Degrees of Freedom is the question: What determines the nature of freedom and the boundaries of citizenship in a society where slavery has recently been abolished? But rather than addressing this question exclusively with the tools of social science, I have tried to carry the analysis forward by tracing the lives of individuals and families on both sides of the Gulf of Mexico as they sought rights and resources. I hope that by the end of the book, the reader will understand something of the dynamics of legal and social change – while accepting the fact that I cannot give a clear and simple answer to the “Why?” question.</p>
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<a href="http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/31121">http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/31121</a></p>
<p> </p>Variante africana del chikungunya se extendería más rápido en la regiónurn:md5:98f79e87e3f46ba8e6a35ec33f2f37082019-03-20T08:58:00-04:002019-03-20T08:58:00-04:00cguajonNoticieroCaribeMedicina <p><br />Fuente: SciDev<br /><br /> <br />[RIO DE JANEIRO] Aunque el virus chikungunya se introdujo en las Américas a través del genotipo asiático en 2013, investigadores de Brasil descubrieron que el genotipo africano (introducido en ese país a través de un único caso en 2014) puede estar extendiéndose más rápidamente hacia otros países de la región, pues los expertos ya lo encontraron en Paraguay y Haití.<br /> <br />Según detalla el estudio publicado este mes en la revista PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, la infección con la variante africana es más grave que la asiática, genera mayor cantidad de individuos con infección crónica y con incapacidades. Esto supone un reto más alto para la salud pública y mayor impacto económico.<br /> <br />Además, el grupo de trabajo —integrado por expertos de Brasil, EEUU y Reino Unido y que recibe el nombre de proyecto Zibra— probó con éxito en el terreno el uso de un secuenciador portátil, que reduce el tiempo en que se puede conocer la variante del virus y tratar mejor la enfermedad.<br /><br /><br /><br />Cont'd.<br /><br />LINK:<br /><a href="https://www.scidev.net/america-latina/salud/noticias/variante-africana-del-chikungunya-se-extenderia-mas-rapido-en-la-region.html">https://www.scidev.net/america-latina/salud/noticias/variante-africana-del-chikungunya-se-extenderia-mas-rapido-en-la-region.html</a><br /><br /></p>Las probabilidades de que tengamos dos huracanes en años seguidosurn:md5:7f3b16fb200bfc3b1eaa70e422afa7562018-06-01T07:25:00-04:002018-06-01T07:25:00-04:00cguajonAmbienteCaribePuerto Rico <p><br />Fuente: Noticel<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Aunque es imposible predecir que otro huracán azotará a Puerto Rico este año, expertos en meteorología aseguran que es improbable un azote directo.<br /><br />“Estadísticamente es inusual para Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes tener impactos directos de huracanes o tormentas tropicales en años consecutivos”, dijo Dan Kottlowski, experto en huracanes de AccuWeather.<br /><br />La última vez que ocurrió fue en 1931 y 1932 (San Nicolás el 10 de septiembre de 1931 y San Ciprián el 26 de septiembre de 1932).<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Cont'd.<br /><br />LINK:<br /><a href="http://www.noticel.com/el-tiempo/huracanes/las-probabilidades-de-que-tengamos-dos-huracanes-en-anos-seguidos/747403951">http://www.noticel.com/el-tiempo/huracanes/las-probabilidades-de-que-tengamos-dos-huracanes-en-anos-seguidos/747403951</a><br /><br /><br /></p>Genes of ‘extinct’ Caribbean islanders found in living peopleurn:md5:29b944556730e97b14ddbaf7e8fcfd9c2018-03-07T06:56:00-04:002018-03-07T06:56:00-04:00cguajonGenéticaBiologiaCaribePuerto Rico ciencia <p><br />Source: Science Magazine<br /><br /><br />Jorge Estevez grew up in the Dominican Republic and New York City hearing stories about his native Caribbean ancestors from his mother and grandmother. But when he told his teachers that he is Taino, an indigenous Caribbean, they said that was impossible. “According to Spanish accounts, we went extinct 30 years after [European] contact,” says Estevez, an expert on Taino cultures at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, who is based in New York City.<br /><br />Many scientists and historians continue to believe the Taino were wiped out by disease, slavery, and other brutal consequences of European colonization without passing down any genes to people in the Caribbean today. But a new genetic study of a 1000-year-old skeleton from the Bahamas shows that at least one modern Caribbean population is related to the region’s precontact indigenous people, offering direct molecular evidence against the idea of Taino “extinction.”<br /><br />“These indigenous communities were written out of history,” says Jada Benn Torres, a genetic anthropologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville who studies the Caribbean’s population history and has worked with native groups on several islands. “They are adamant about their continuous existence, that they’ve always been [on these islands],” she says. “So to see it reflected in the ancient DNA, it’s great.”<br /><br /><br /><br />Cont'd.<br /><br />LINK:<br /><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/genes-extinct-caribbean-islanders-found-living-people">http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/genes-extinct-caribbean-islanders-found-living-people</a><br /><br /></p>Genes of ‘extinct’ Caribbean islanders found in living peopleurn:md5:d92283b65547cff0b36f6e22d838ada12018-02-22T07:10:00-04:002018-02-22T07:10:00-04:00cguajonGenéticaBiologiaCaribeEvolución <p><br />Source: Science Magazine<br /><br /><br /><br />Jorge Estevez grew up in the Dominican Republic and New York City hearing stories about his native Caribbean ancestors from his mother and grandmother. But when he told his teachers that he is Taino, an indigenous Caribbean, they said that was impossible. “According to Spanish accounts, we went extinct 30 years after [European] contact,” says Estevez, an expert on Taino cultures at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, who is based in New York City.<br /><br />Many scientists and historians continue to believe the Taino were wiped out by disease, slavery, and other brutal consequences of European colonization without passing down any genes to people in the Caribbean today. But a new genetic study of a 1000-year-old skeleton from the Bahamas shows that at least one modern Caribbean population is related to the region’s precontact indigenous people, offering direct molecular evidence against the idea of Taino “extinction.”<br /><br />“These indigenous communities were written out of history,” says Jada Benn Torres, a genetic anthropologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville who studies the Caribbean’s population history and has worked with native groups on several islands. “They are adamant about their continuous existence, that they’ve always been [on these islands],” she says. “So to see it reflected in the ancient DNA, it’s great.”<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Cont'd.<br /><br />LINK:<br /><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/genes-extinct-caribbean-islanders-found-living-people">http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/genes-extinct-caribbean-islanders-found-living-people</a><br /><br /></p>2017, Raby, American Tropicsurn:md5:468a60c12a7196fd05d8465dbac20c8b2017-04-14T07:53:00-04:002017-04-15T07:27:43-04:00cguajonLibrosCaribeHistoria de la cienicaNuevos libros <p><br />American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges) Paperback – November 13, 2017<br />by Megan Raby (Author)<br />Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (November 13, 2017)<br />Language: English<br />ISBN-10: 1469635607<br />ISBN-13: 978-1469635606<br /><br /><br /><br />Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of American "tropical biologists" developed both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of biodiversity.<br /><br />Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science, environmental history, and the history of U.S.–Caribbean and Latin American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire.<br /><br /></p>1urn:md5:2d5f58975e6243d7ca40998ba1ae6e892015-04-04T18:14:00-04:002015-04-04T20:01:56-04:00Rodrigo FernosICTAL 2002-2008América CentralCaribeIberiaMesoAmericaPuerto RicoSur-America <p>1</p>