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The Post-Heroic Field.
- Source :
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Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society . Mar2022, Vol. 113 Issue 1, p114-120. 7p. 1 Black and White Photograph. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This essay argues for taking fieldwork seriously, but not too seriously. It focuses on geologists and geomorphologists in the United States in the post–World War II decades who used irony, satire, and self-conscious staging to negotiate the contradictions between the tradition of frontier fieldwork that they had inherited from the late nineteenth century and the realities of mid-twentieth-century fieldwork, which they often found hard to fit into the heroic mold. Poking fun at the fieldwork tradition, the essay argues, helped them claim that tradition as their own even while constructing new scientific personas and practices that diverged from it in a number of ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *FIELD research
*GEOLOGISTS
*GEOMORPHOLOGISTS
*SELF-consciousness (Awareness)
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00211753
- Volume :
- 113
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155515983
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1086/718151