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An edition of E.T. culture (2005)

E.T. culture

anthropology in outerspaces

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Anthropologists have long sought to describe alien societies. These cultural readings of alien encounters, draw on social science, science studies, linguistics, popular culture and social history as the contributors unsettle the boundaries of science, magic, and religion, and of technology.

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296

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Cover of: E. T. Culture
E. T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces
2006, Duke University Press
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Cover of: E. T. Culture
E. T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces
2006, Duke University Press
in English
Cover of: E.T. culture
E.T. culture: anthropology in outerspaces
2005, Duke University Press
in English
Cover of: E.T. Culture
E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces
December 2005, Duke University Press
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E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces
December 2005, Duke University Press
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Table of Contents

Insiders' voices in outerspaces / Debbora Battaglia
Ufology as anthropology : race, extraterrestrials, and the occult / Christopher F. Roth
Alien tongues / David Samuels
The license : poetics, power, and the uncanny / Susan Lepselter
"For those who are not afraid of the future" : raelian faith-based science and the media / Debbora Battaglia
Intertextual enterprises : writing alternative places and meanings in the media mixed networks of Yugioh / Mizuko Ito
Close encounters of the Nth kind : becoming sampled and the Mullis-ship connection / Richard Doyle
"Come on, people
we *are* the aliens. We seem to be suffering from host-planet rejection syndrome" : liminal illnesses, structural damnation, and social creativity / Joseph Dumit.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Durham

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306/.1
Library of Congress
BF2050 .E8 2005, BF2050.E8 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
296

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3409709M
ISBN 10
0822336324, 0822336219
LCCN
2005025677
OCLC/WorldCat
61520296
LibraryThing
7948242
Wikidata
Q111269763
Goodreads
3581701
828119

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OL18351217W

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