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Articulating dinosaurs : a political anthropology /

"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, scie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Noble, Brian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo [New York] ; London [England] : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Edición:[DesLibris e-book].
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Can there really be an anthropology of dinosaurs?
  • Part One. Animating the tyrant kingdoms. Materializing Mesozoic time-space
  • Land of the fear, home of the bravado
  • Animating Tyrannosaurus rex, modelling the perfect race
  • Politics/natures, all the way down
  • Vestiges of the lost world : recirculating the tyrant nexus
  • Phantasmatics in the systematics of life
  • Part Two. Articulating the good mother lizard. Articulating Maiasaura peeblesorum : the life, times, and relations of ROM #44770
  • "A real sense of a dynamic process"
  • A really big Jurassic place : when specimens and chronotopes meet
  • Need to say, need to know : planning to articulate specimen and spectacle
  • The difference a lab can make
  • A perfect time for raising a family : kinship as new syntax for dinosaurian natures?
  • Technotheatrical natures : Maiasaur's world, by default?
  • Mirabile dictu! : factishes all the way down
  • "Just trying to be a scientist" : another Mesozoic is possible.