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E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces
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Description for E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces
Paperback. Cultural readings of alien encounters Editor(s): Battaglia, Debbora. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
Anthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or “alien” societies, yet few have considered the fluid communities centered around a shared belief in alien beings and UFO sightings and their effect on popular and expressive culture. Opening up a new frontier for anthropological study, the contributors to E.T. Culture take these communities seriously. They demonstrate that an E.T. orientation toward various forms of visitation—including alien beings, alien technologies, and uncanny visions—engages primary concepts underpinning anthropological research: host and visitor, home and away, subjectivity and objectivity. Taking the point of view of those who commit to sci-fi as sci-fact, ... Read more
Anthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or “alien” societies, yet few have considered the fluid communities centered around a shared belief in alien beings and UFO sightings and their effect on popular and expressive culture. Opening up a new frontier for anthropological study, the contributors to E.T. Culture take these communities seriously. They demonstrate that an E.T. orientation toward various forms of visitation—including alien beings, alien technologies, and uncanny visions—engages primary concepts underpinning anthropological research: host and visitor, home and away, subjectivity and objectivity. Taking the point of view of those who commit to sci-fi as sci-fact, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822336211
SKU
V9780822336211
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About Battaglia
Debbora Battaglia is Professor of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of On the Bones of the Serpent: Person, Memory, and Mortality in Sabarl Island Society and the editor of Rhetorics of Self-Making.
Reviews for E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces
“E.T. Culture is a very strong theoretical intervention and a fascinating read. It is remarkable for its expansive, multiple-explanations approach. Each article makes a different, and each a compelling, argument for what UFOness is all about.”—Kathleen Stewart, author of A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an “Other” America “Who would have guessed in this dark ... Read more