{"product_id":"articulating-dinosaurs-a-political-anthropology-paperback-softback-9781442627055","title":"Articulating Dinosaurs; A Political Anthropology (Paperback \/ softback) 9781442627055","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArticulating Dinosaurs\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Political Anthropology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrian Noble (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442627055\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 July 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e512 pages, 51 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 1 b\u0026amp;w table\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.1 x 2.9 cm, 0.77 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;It\u0026amp;#x2019;s about time such inventiveness was studied so seriously!... Highly recommended. All levels\/libraries\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - A.F. Roberts (Choice Magazine vol 54:07:2017) \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;This book provides an immensity of intimate detail that will be of significant value to scholars of museum studies.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Richard Fallon (Museum and Society vol 15:02:2017) \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;I found this volume engaging and provocative and look forward to my next paleontology museum visit.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Robert L. Anemone (American Ethnologist vol 44:02:2017) \u003cp\u003e\"[This book] addresses readerships from different fields and is itself informed by a variety of theoretical positions ranging from social anthropology and gender theory to actor network theory, as well as science and technology studies, museum studies, and cultural studies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Mereike Vennen, Technical University of Berlin (Isis, vol 109:4)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArticulating Dinosaurs \u003c\/em\u003eexamines the resurrecting of two of the most iconic and gendered of dinosaurs.  First Noble traces the emergence of \u003cem\u003eTyrannosaurus rex\u003c\/em\u003e (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 \u003cem\u003eMaiasaura\u003c\/em\u003e (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 \u003cem\u003eT. rex\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMaiasaura\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eArticulating Dinosaurs \u003c\/em\u003eis a remarkable look at not just how we visualize the prehistoric past, but how we make it palpable in our everyday lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 \/ Can there Really be an Anthropology of Dinosaurs?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart One \/ Animating the Tyrant Kingdoms\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2 \/ Materializing Mesozoic Time\/Space\u003cbr\u003e  3 \/ Land of the Fear, Home of the Bravado\u003cbr\u003e  4 \/ Animating \u003cem\u003eTyrannosaurus rex\u003c\/em\u003e, Modelling the Perfect Race\u003cbr\u003e  5 \/ Politics\/Natures: All the Way Down\u003cbr\u003e  6\/ Vestiges of the Lost World: Recirculating the Tyrant Nexus\u003cbr\u003e  7 \/ Phantasmatics in the Systematics of Life\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart Two \/ Articulating the Good Mother Lizard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  8 \/ Articulating Maiasaura peeblesorum\u003cbr\u003e  9 \/ “A Real Sense of a Dynamic Process”\u003cbr\u003e  10 \/ A Really Big Jurassic Place\u003cbr\u003e  11 \/ Need to Say, Need to Know\u003cbr\u003e  12 \/ The Difference a Lab can Make\u003cbr\u003e  13 \/ A Perfect Time for Raising a Family\u003cbr\u003e  14 \/ Technotheatrical Natures\u003cbr\u003e  15 \/ \u003cem\u003eMirabile dictu\u003c\/em\u003e!\u003cbr\u003e  16 \/ “Just Trying to Be a Scientist”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735314034968,"sku":"9781442627055","price":32.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/articulating-dinosaurs-a-political-anthropology-paperback-softback-9781442627055","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}