Technol Cult. 2022;63(3):808-829. doi: 10.1353/tech.2022.0110.
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 (frozendehydrated 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.
本文通过简要回顾 20 世纪拉丁美洲技术史的学术著作，考察了历史学家对创新和高科技的过度关注，而相对忽视了本地生产。本文遵循斯万特·林德奎斯特（Svante Lindqvist）的“技术景观”方法，认为该地区当前的技术史更倾向于变革而非延续，从而延续了技术动态的现代主义和工业化视角。本文通过对秘鲁和玻利维亚高原上的 chuño（冻干土豆）生产和消费的案例研究，展示了历史学家如何将本地和长期存在的知识和用途纳入技术史的经典之中。
