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Listen "Field Notes - 28 October 2013 - People and Places: Late C20th"
Episode Synopsis
People and Places Reading Group: Experts, Politicians, Labs and Media in Late Twentieth-Century Palaeoanthropological Knowledge Production
Miquel Carandell Baruzzi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Abstract
Our Michaelmas reading group develops from Miquel’s interest in the ‘Orce man’ controversy that arose over a cranial fragment discovered in 1982 in Orce, Granada that initially appeared to be from a hominid but was later attributed to a donkey’s remains. In this session, Miquel will trace how paleoanthropological knowledge is “constructed” by different actors (academic experts, politicians, journalists) in excavation sites, laboratories, conferences and the modern media. Seeking a better understanding of the strategies used by scientists in this process, we will discuss how it is possible to analyse and begin to frame the construction of paleoanthropology as a scientific discipline at the end of the twentieth century.
Miquel Carandell Baruzzi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Abstract
Our Michaelmas reading group develops from Miquel’s interest in the ‘Orce man’ controversy that arose over a cranial fragment discovered in 1982 in Orce, Granada that initially appeared to be from a hominid but was later attributed to a donkey’s remains. In this session, Miquel will trace how paleoanthropological knowledge is “constructed” by different actors (academic experts, politicians, journalists) in excavation sites, laboratories, conferences and the modern media. Seeking a better understanding of the strategies used by scientists in this process, we will discuss how it is possible to analyse and begin to frame the construction of paleoanthropology as a scientific discipline at the end of the twentieth century.
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