In 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 howfossil remains are taken from their partial state and re-composed into astonishingly precise, animated presences within the modern world, with profound political consequences.

Articulating Dinosaurs examines the...

In 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 howfossil remains are taken from their partial state and re-composed into astonishingly precise, animated presences within the modern world, with profound political consequences.

Articulating Dinosaurs examines the...