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Beyond Imported Magic

Inside Technology Series

edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, W. Bernard Carlson, and Trevor Pinch

Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America

Anique Hommels, Jessica Mesman, and Wiebe E. Bijker, editors,

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Beyond Imported Magic

Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America

edited by Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes

with a foreword by Marcos Cueto

The MIT Press

Cambridge, Massachusetts

London, England

2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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