Preparing Dinosaurs : The Work behind the Scenes

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Tác giả: Caitlin Donahue Wylie

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-0262365970

ISBN-13: 978-0262542678

Ký hiệu phân loại: 560 Paleontology Paleozoology

Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2021

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (264 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 236027

 An investigation of the work and workers in fossil preparation labs reveals the often unacknowledged creativity and problem-solving on which scientists rely. Those awe-inspiring dinosaur skeletons on display in museums do not spring fully assembled from the earth. Technicians known as preparators have painstakingly removed the fossils from rock, repaired broken bones, and reconstructed missing pieces to create them. These specimens are foundational evidence for paleontologists, and yet the work and workers in fossil preparation labs go largely unacknowledged in publications and specimen records. In this book, Caitlin Wylie investigates the skilled labor of fossil preparators and argues for a new model of science that includes all research work and workers. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interviews, Wylie shows that the everyday work of fossil preparation requires creativity, problem-solving, and craft. She finds that preparators privilege their own skills over technology and that scientists prefer to rely on these trusted technicians rather than new technologies. Wylie examines how fossil preparators decide what fossils, and therefore dinosaurs, look like
  how labor relations between interdependent yet hierarchically unequal collaborators influence scientific practice
  how some museums display preparators at work behind glass, as if they were another exhibit
  and how these workers learn their skills without formal training or scientific credentials. The work of preparing specimens is a crucial component of scientific research, although it leaves few written traces. Wylie argues that the paleontology research community's social structure demonstrates how other sciences might incorporate non-scientists into research work, empowering and educating both scientists and nonscientists.
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