E.t. Culture

by Battaglia, Debbora; Roth, Christopher F. (CON); Samuels, David (CON); Lepselter, Susan (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822336327
• ISBN10: 0822336324
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"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"

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	vii
Insiders' Voices in Outerspaces	1	(37)
Debbora Battaglia
Ufology as Anthropology: Race, Extraterrestrials, and the Occult	38	(56)
Christopher F. Roth
Alien Tongues	94	(36)
David Samuels
The License: Poetics, Power, and the Uncanny	130	(19)
Susan Lepselter
``For Those Who Are Not Afraid of the Future'': Raelian Clonehood in the Public Sphere	149	(31)
Debbora Battaglia
Intertextual Enterprises: Writing Alternative Places and Meanings in the Media Mixed Networks of Yugioh	180	(20)
Mizuko Ito
Close Encounters of the Nth Kind: Becoming Sampled and the Mullis-ship Connection	200	(18)
Richard Doyle
``Come on, people . . . we *are* the aliens. We seem to be suffering from Host-Planet Rejection Syndrome'': Liminal Illnesses, Structural Damnation, and Social Creativity	218	(17)
Joseph Dumit
References	235	(28)
Contributors	263	(2)
Index	265