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UFOs, the absurd, and the limit of anthropological knowledge : (Record no. 613156)

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International Standard Book Number 9781032494661 (hbk.)
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Classification number 001.9420983
Edition number 23
Item number ESP.D
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Espirito Santo, Diana.
Relator term author.
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Title UFOs, the absurd, and the limit of anthropological knowledge :
Remainder of title imagining the impossible in Chile /
Statement of responsibility, etc. by Diana EspĂ­rito Santo.
Medium English.
246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title Unidentified Flying Objects, the absurd, and the limit of anthropological knowledge
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Edition statement 1st.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2024.
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Projected publication date 2408
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Extent xiv, 169 p. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
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Price amount 145.00
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Series statement Routledge Studies in Anthropology
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Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Parallax -- Paradox -- Deceit -- Dark -- Trickster.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on Chilean ufology and the ufological 'absurd', nonsensical instances for their experiencers in which there is no conceptual way out. It asks how anthropology can come to terms with what is not said, not known, with what is in the dark, or even with what both 'is' and 'is not'. The work draws on three years of participant observation with empirical ufologists, amateur sky watchers, and contactees of varying kinds in Chile. The chapters mobilize three main bodies of literature to elucidate the ufological absurd: negative theology, anthropology of play and deceit, and the physics of dark matter. They explore notions of parallax, paradox, and trickster anthropology. The author takes UFO phenomena, specifically the absurd aspects, as a heuristic with which to posit a conversation between domains; a conversation which highlights darknesses, finiteness, the limits of representation and media in anthropology, and that could perhaps signal the route to a new language. Consideration is given to how not-knowing can be a space of extreme productiveness for the discipline. The argument put forward is that only by doing an anthropology that looks outside of itself for conceptual inspiration can we come to terms with the non-representable, the un-conceptualizable, the fully paradoxical. This innovative book will be of particular interest to scholars of anthropological theory and religion"--
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Extraterrestrial anthropology.
9 (RLIN) 38197
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Unidentified flying objects
General subdivision Sightings and encounters.
9 (RLIN) 38198
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Online version:
Main entry heading Espirito Santo, Diana
Title UFOs, the absurd, and the limit of anthropological knowledge
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : Routledge, 2024.
International Standard Book Number 9781032494661
Record control number (DLC) 2024006990
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