03246cam a22003978i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000250008803500130011304000240012608200270015010000430017724501420022024600880036225000090045026000570045926300090051630000260052533600260055133700280057733800270060536500180063249000380065050400510068850500560073952015390079565000420233465000660237677601670244290600450260994200180265499900190267295201570269123601952OSt20251230145507.0240311s2024    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a  2024006989  a9781032494661 (hbk.)  a23601952  aDLCbengerdacJKRC00a001.9420983223bESP.D1 aEspirito Santo, Diana.eauthor.93819610aUFOs, the absurd, and the limit of anthropological knowledge :bimagining the impossible in Chile /cby Diana Espírito Santo.hEnglish.3 aUnidentified Flying Objects, the absurd, and the limit of anthropological knowledge  a1st.  aNew York :bRoutledge Taylor & Francis Group,c2024.  a2408  axiv, 169 p. ;c24 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  b145.00cPound0 aRoutledge Studies in Anthropology  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aParallax -- Paradox -- Deceit -- Dark -- Trickster.  a"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"--cProvided by publisher. 0aExtraterrestrial anthropology.938197 0aUnidentified flying objectsxSightings and encounters.93819808iOnline version:aEspirito Santo, DianatUFOs, the absurd, and the limit of anthropological knowledgedNew York : Routledge, 2024.z9781032494661w(DLC) 2024006990  a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddcc1e23n0  c613156d613156  00102ddc4070a2b2d2025-12-30eBombay Books, 451 / 24-11-2025i523056l0o001.9420983 ESP.Dp523056r2025-12-30v145.00w2025-12-30y1z145.00 Pound