Articulating Dinosaurs

A Political Anthropology

By (author) Brian Noble
Categories: History of science, Science: general issues, Mathematics and Science
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Paperback : 9781442627055, 512 pages, July 2016

Table of contents

1 / Can there Really be an Anthropology of Dinosaurs?

Part One / Animating the Tyrant Kingdoms
2 / Materializing Mesozoic Time/Space
3 / Land of the Fear, Home of the Bravado
4 / Animating Tyrannosaurus rex, Modelling the Perfect Race
5 / Politics/Natures: All the Way Down
6/ Vestiges of the Lost World: Recirculating the Tyrant Nexus
7 / Phantasmatics in the Systematics of Life

Part Two / Articulating the Good Mother Lizard
8 / Articulating Maiasaura peeblesorum
9 / “A Real Sense of a Dynamic Process”
10 / A Really Big Jurassic Place
11 / Need to Say, Need to Know
12 / The Difference a Lab can Make
13 / A Perfect Time for Raising a Family
14 / Technotheatrical Natures
15 / Mirabile dictu!
16 / “Just Trying to Be a Scientist”

Description

In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how specimens and humans create dinosaurs together. He examines the resurrection of two of the most iconic and gendered dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurus rex, “king of the tyrant lizards,” and Maiasaura, “good mother lizard. ” Noble places the political natures of these dinosaurs into high relief and raises vital questions about how our choices make a difference in what comes to count as “nature. ”

Reviews

‘This book provides an immensity of intimate detail that will be of significant value to scholars of museum studies. ’

- Richard Fallon

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"[This book] addresses readerships from different fields and is itself informed by a variety of theoretical positions ranging from social anthropology and gender theory to actor network theory, as well as science and technology studies, museum studies, and cultural studies. "

- Mereike Vennen, Technical University of Berlin

‘I found this volume engaging and provocative and look forward to my next paleontology museum visit. ’

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