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Making Our Beasts - (Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics) by Elana Shever
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- A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
- About the Author: Elana Shever is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University and author of Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina.
- 295 Pages
- Social Science, Anthropology
- Series Name: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
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A 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.About the Author
Elana Shever is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University and author of Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina.Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 295
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Anthropology
Series Title: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
Publisher: University of California Press
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Elana Shever
Language: English
Street Date: January 23, 2026
TCIN: 1003285912
UPC: 9780520425668
Item Number (DPCI): 247-43-9574
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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