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Book SynopsisAn original and illuminating study of science, culture, and museums, Articulating Dinosaurs is a remarkable look at not just how we visualize the prehistoric past, but how we make it palpable it our everyday lives.
Trade Review'It's about time such inventiveness was studied so seriously!... Highly recommended. All levels/libraries' -- A.F. Roberts Choice Magazine vol 54:07:2017
Table of Contents1 / Can there Really be an Anthropology of Dinosaurs? Part One / Animating the Tyrant Kingdoms 2 / Materializing Mesozoic Time/Space 3 / Land of the Fear, Home of the Bravado 4 / Animating Tyrannosaurus rex, Modelling the Perfect Race 5 / Politics/Natures: All the Way Down 6/ Vestiges of the Lost World: Recirculating the Tyrant Nexus 7 / Phantasmatics in the Systematics of Life Part Two / Articulating the Good Mother Lizard 8 / Articulating Maiasaura peeblesorum 9 / "A Real Sense of a Dynamic Process" 10 / A Really Big Jurassic Place 11 / Need to Say, Need to Know 12 / The Difference a Lab can Make 13 / A Perfect Time for Raising a Family 14 / Technotheatrical Natures 15 / Mirabile dictu! 16 / "Just Trying to Be a Scientist"
