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E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces

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This is a wonderful and innovative collection. The various authors look at different ways that people talk about aliens and extraterrestrials and use these case studies to examine some important issues about contemporary culture, like (1) ideas about what it means to be "human," (2) notions of "visitors" and "encounters," and (3) ideas of "here" and "elsewhere." It's read to teach with (students love talking about UFOs!) and also good as a source of ideas of all kinds. There's a whole emerging literature in anthropology and other disciplines tackling these kinds of topics, and much of it is quite exciting and provocative - certainly true for this volume!