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Articulating Dinosaurs - A Political Anthropology (Paperback)
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Articulating Dinosaurs - A Political Anthropology (Paperback)
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In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian
Noble traces how dinosaurs and their natural worlds are articulated
into being by the action of specimens and humans together.
Following the complex exchanges of palaeontologists, museums
specialists, film- and media-makers, science fiction writers, and
their diverse publics, he witnesses how fossil remains are taken
from their partial state and re-composed into astonishingly
precise, animated presences within the modern world, with profound
political consequences. Articulating Dinosaurs examines the
resurrecting of two of the most iconic and gendered of dinosaurs.
First Noble traces the emergence of Tyrannosaurus rex (the "king of
the tyrant lizards") in the early twentieth-century scientific,
literary, and filmic cross-currents associated with the American
Museum of Natural History under the direction of palaeontologist
and eugenicist Henry Fairfield Osborn. Then he offers his detailed
ethnographic study of the multi-media, model-making, curatorial,
and laboratory preparation work behind the Royal Ontario Museum's
ground-breaking 1990s exhibit of Maiasaura (the "good mother
lizard"). Setting the exhibits at the AMNH and the ROM against each
other, Noble is able to place the political natures of T. rex and
Maiasaura into high relief and to raise vital questions about how
our choices make a difference in what comes to count as "nature."
An original and illuminating study of science, culture, and
museums, Articulating Dinosaurs is a remarkable look at not just
how we visualize the prehistoric past, but how we make it palpable
in our everyday lives.
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