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100	1		_aEspirito Santo, Diana. _eauthor. _938196
245	1	0	_aUFOs, the absurd, and the limit of anthropological knowledge : _bimagining the impossible in Chile / _cby Diana Espírito Santo. _hEnglish.
246	3		_aUnidentified Flying Objects, the absurd, and the limit of anthropological knowledge
250			_a1st.
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge Taylor & Francis Group, _c2024.
263			_a2408
300			_axiv, 169 p. ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
365			_b145.00 _cPound
490	0		_aRoutledge Studies in Anthropology
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aParallax -- Paradox -- Deceit -- Dark -- Trickster.
520			_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.
650		0	_aExtraterrestrial anthropology. _938197
650		0	_aUnidentified flying objects _xSightings and encounters. _938198
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aEspirito Santo, Diana _tUFOs, the absurd, and the limit of anthropological knowledge _dNew York : Routledge, 2024. _z9781032494661 _w(DLC) 2024006990
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