E.T. Culture

Anthropology in Outerspaces

By: Debbora Battaglia (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 January 2006

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Anthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or "alien" societies, yet few have considered the fluid communities centered around a shared belief in alien beings and UFO sightings and their effect on popular and expressive culture. Opening up a new frontier for anthropological study, the contributors to "E.T. Culture" take these communities seriously. They demonstrate that an E.T. orientation toward various forms of visitation--including alien beings, alien technologies, and uncanny visions--engages primary concepts underpinning anthropological research: host and visitor, home and away, subjectivity and objectivity. Taking the point of view of those who commit to sci-fi as sci-fact, contributors to this volume show how discussions and representations of otherworldly beings express concerns about racial and ethnic differences, the anxieties and fascination associated with modern technologies, and alienation from the inner workings of government.

Drawing on social science, science studies, linguistics, popular and expressive culture, and social and intellectual history, the writers of "E.T. Culture" unsettle the boundaries of science, magic, and religion as well as those of technological and human agency. They consider the ways that sufferers of "unmarked" diseases such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome come to feel alien to both the "healthy" world and the medical community incapable of treating them; the development of alien languages like Klingon; attempts to formulate a communications technology--such as that created for the spaceship "Voyager"--that will reach alien beings; the pilgrimage spirit of UFO seekers; the out-of-time experiences of Nobel scientists; the embrace of the alien within Japanese animation and fan culture; and the physical spirituality of the Raelian religious network.

Contributors. Debbora Battaglia, Richard Doyle, Joseph Dumit, Mizuko Ito, Susan Lepselter, Christopher Roth, David Samuels

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"Who would have guessed in this dark and fearful time that a collection of essays on aliens would offer so much hope? Debbora Battaglia and her contributors open up new spaces for thinking. They provide us with room to breathe. Approaching otherness and the uncanny not with anxiety but with optimism, her anthropology of visits invites us to make ourselves open to ambiguity, an invitation which, in an unfortunate age of absolutes, we would all do well to accept."--Jodi Dean, author of Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace "E.T. Culture is a very strong theoretical intervention and a fascinating read. It is remarkable for its expansive, multiple-explanations approach. Each article makes a different, and each a compelling, argument for what UFOness is all about."--Kathleen Stewart, author of A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America

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Editors' Note
Insiders' Voices in Outerspaces
Ufology as Anthropology: Race, Extraterrestrials, and the Occult
Alien Tongues
The License: Poetics, Power, and the Uncanny
"For Those Who Are Not Afraid of the Future": Raelian Clonehood in the Public Sphere
Intertextual Enterprises: Writing Alternative Places and Meanings in the Media Mixed Networks of Yugioh
Close Encounters of the Nth Kind: Becoming Sampled and the Mullis-ship Connection
"Come on, people... we are the aliens. We seem to be suffering from Host-Planet Rejection Syndrome": Liminal Illnesses, Structural Damnation, and Social Creativity
References
Contributors
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