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This text addresses the question of how dinosaurs moved from natural extinction to pop culture resurrection, exploring the animal's place in our lives and the source of its popular appeal. In tracing the cultural family tree of the dinosaur there is discovered a creature of striking flexibility, linked to dragons and mammoths, skyscrapers and steam engines, cowboys and Indians. Here the dinosaur becomes a cultural symbol whose plurality of meaning and often contradictory nature is emblematic of modern society itself. As a scientific entity, the dinosaur endured a near-eclipse for over a century, but as an image it is enjoying its widest circulation. The text suggests it endures because it is uniquely malleable, a figure of both innovation and obsolescence, massive power and pathetic failure - the totem animal of modernity.Product Identifiers
PublisherT.H.E. University of Chicago Press
ISBN-139780226532042
eBay Product ID (ePID)91841262
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Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Last Dinosaur Book: the Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
Publication Year1998
SubjectGeology, Anthropology
TypeTextbook
AuthorW. J. T. Mitchell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height260 mm
Item Weight1060 g
Item Width175 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorW. J. T. Mitchell
