The multiple Eudald Carbonell: the various roles of Catalonia's most popular archaeologist
- Autores: Oliver Hochadel
- Localización: Dynamis: Acta hispanica ad medicinae scientiarumque historiam illustrandam, ISSN 0211-9536, Vol. 33, Nº. 2, 2013, págs. 389-416
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Eudald Carbonell is mainly known for being the co-director of the Atapuerca research project, a hominid site in Northern Spain that boasts the «oldest European». In the course of his career as an archaeologist, he has become a highly visible figure, not least because of his incessant attempts to communicate his ideas to the general public. In these past four decades, Carbonell has taken on a host of diverse roles: scientific but also social and political ones. The political and scientific context of Catalonia and Spain since the early 1970s proves crucial in these activities. Carbonell�s claim to belong to a «peripheral» scientific community (be it Catalan or Spanish) is a central element in the construction of these roles. At the same time, Carbonell provides an instructive example of the «medialization» of science, transforming himself from an outsider into a celebrity and ultimately into a commodity.
