Articulating Dinosaurs : A Political Anthropology /

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"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 wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Noble, Brian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London [England] : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Edición:[DesLibris e-book].
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Royal Ontario Museum.
American Museum of Natural History.
Tyrannosaurus rex.
Political anthropology.
Museum exhibits > Political aspects.
Maiasaura.
Dinosaurs in popular culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
NATURE > Fossils.
Dinosaures dans la culture populaire.
Anthropologie politique.
Objets exposes > Aspect politique > Ontario.
Objets exposes > Aspect politique > New York (État) > New York.
Museum exhibits > Political aspects > Ontario.
Museum exhibits > Political aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Ontario.
New York (State) > New York.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:"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 it our everyday lives."--
"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."--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (512 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781442621312

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