Battaglia E.T. Culture

Anthropology in Outerspaces
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8701-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Cultural readings of alien encounters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Battaglia, Debbora

Weitere Mitwirkende

Roth, Christopher F.

Samuels, David

Lepselter, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Moderne Kulte & Sekten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' Note

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 Clonehood in the Public Sphere / 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

References

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.