UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge - Diana Espírito Santo

UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge

Imagining the Impossible in Chile
Buch | Hardcover
170 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-49466-1 (ISBN)
159,95 inkl. MwSt
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.
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, what is not known, 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, and the limits of representation and media in anthropology, one 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.

Diana Espírito Santo (PhD University College London) is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her previous book with Routledge is Spirited Histories: Technologies, Media, and Trauma in Paranormal Chile (2022).

Introduction

1 Parallax

2 Paradox

3 Deceit

4 Dark

5 Trickster

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Zusatzinfo 3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 503 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Esoterik / Spiritualität
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-032-49466-2 / 1032494662
ISBN-13 978-1-032-49466-1 / 9781032494661
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