{"product_id":"making-our-beasts-elana-shever-9780520416727","title":"Making Our Beasts: Paleontology in the United States Volume 20","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Our Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e 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 paleontology 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 labor of volunteers, technicians, and other nonscientists. It also reveals how paleontology continues to be structured by race, gender, and colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elana Shever\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520416724\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520416727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Elana Shever","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962019893503,"sku":"9780520416727","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6d77c7a8-9c6b-4753-ba0e-1f4aeee6685c.jpg?v=1750649072","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-our-beasts-elana-shever-9780520416727","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}