Making Our Beasts
Paleontology in the United States
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2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41672-7 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
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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. Foregrounding elements of scientific inquiry that have been sidelined—including affect, touch, material agency, and the labor of volunteers, technicians, and other nonscientists—Shever reveals how paleontology continues to be structured by race, gender, and colonialism.
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. Foregrounding elements of scientific inquiry that have been sidelined—including affect, touch, material agency, and the labor of volunteers, technicians, and other nonscientists—Shever reveals how paleontology continues to be structured by race, gender, and colonialism.
Elana Shever is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University and author of Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Meeting Prehistory Halfway
1. Becoming Stone
2. Making Charismatic Violence
3. Forging Connection Across Millions of Years
4. Paleontology, Colonialism, and Edutainment
5. The Paleontological Real
Conclusion: Re-Making Our Beasts
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics ; 20 |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 color images, 1 map |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-41672-4 / 0520416724 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-41672-7 / 9780520416727 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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