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Miquel Carandell Baruzzi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Monday 28 October 2013, 17:00-19:00
People & Places Reading Group: Experts, Politicians, Labs and Media in Late 20th-Century Palaeoanthropological Knowledge Production
- 👤 Speaker: Miquel Carandell Baruzzi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- 📅 Date & Time: Monday 28 October 2013, 17:00 - 19:00
- 📍 Venue: Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
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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