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Making Our Beasts: Paleontology in the United States Volume 20 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520425668)
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xA 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.
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 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.Author: Elana Shever
ISBN-10: 0520425669
ISBN-13: 9780520425668
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2025
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
By Elana Shever
xElana Shever is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University and author of Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina.
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