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Making Our Beasts
Paleontology in the United States
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing programme. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Making Our Beasts is an ethnography of science-in-action that uses a familiar topic—dinosaurs—to lead readers to understand science and its objects in...
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Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing programme. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
Making Our Beasts is an ethnography of science-in-action that uses a familiar topic—dinosaurs—to lead readers to understand science and its objects in new ways. Through fieldwork and interviews conducted at laboratories, dig sites, museums, and entertainment sites, Elana Shever explores vertebrate palaeontology in the United States, showing how the practices of scientists and the materiality of fossils together shape the social world and also are shaped by it.
The book foregrounds elements of scientific inquiry that have been sidelined: affect, touch, material agency, and the labour of volunteers, technicians, and other non-scientists. It also reveals how palaeontology continues to be structured by race, gender, and colonialism.
Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780520416727
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 December 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Illustration: 20 color images, 1 map
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 270
About the Author
Elana Shever is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University and author of Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina.
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