Arpita Roy is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Arpita Roy, whose exceptional academic career straddles physics, anthropology, and sociology, spent two and a half years at CERN in Switzerland to bring us her unique insights into the working of particle physics. Even professional particle physicists will find much that is novel in this eye-opening book.

• List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Finding the Higgs Boson2. Nature and Signature3. On Orientation4. The Cycle of Work5. Art, Science, and PostmodernismEpilogueNotesReferencesIndex

Arpita Roy is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Arpita Roy, whose exceptional academic career straddles physics, anthropology, and sociology, spent two and a half years at CERN in Switzerland to bring us her unique insights into the working of particle physics. Even professional particle physicists will find much that is novel in this eye-opening book.

• List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Finding the Higgs Boson2. Nature and Signature3. On Orientation4. The Cycle of Work5. Art, Science, and PostmodernismEpilogueNotesReferencesIndex

Arpita Roy is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Arpita Roy, whose exceptional academic career straddles physics, anthropology, and sociology, spent two and a half years at CERN in Switzerland to bring us her unique insights into the working of particle physics. Even professional particle physicists will find much that is novel in this eye-opening book.

• List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Finding the Higgs Boson2. Nature and Signature3. On Orientation4. The Cycle of Work5. Art, Science, and PostmodernismEpilogueNotesReferencesIndex