Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space : Methods and Perspectives / edited by Jenia Gorbanenko, David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai, and Adryon Kozel.

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Space Anthropology Then and Now -- Emergent Futures -- Collapsing Scales -- Space Heuristic -- References -- 2 Transcendence, Bodies, and Estranged Labour in Outer Space: The Astronaut's Contribution to a General Theory of Hierarchy -- Astronaut Bodies, Experimental Subjects, and Propriety -- Estranged Labour On the ISS -- On Methods -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 3 Anthropologists in Outer Space: Science Fiction, Infrastructure, Comparison -- Science Fictional Anthropology -- Anthropos in Space -- Space On Earth -- What Can Space Do? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4 Imaginaries of Outer Space From Africa: Astronomy Infrastructure in South Africa and Madagascar -- The Hypervisibility of Space Infrastructure and the African Renaissance -- Expectations of Modernity: Contested Terrestrial Spaces -- The Poetics of Astronomy Infrastructure: Malagasy Potentialities -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 5 Museums, Meteorites, and Portals: Tracing the Imperial Logics of Trans-Planetary Resource Extractivism -- By Way of Introduction -- 'This Is the Oldest Object You Will Ever Touch…' -- Re-fielded Terrains and Trans-Planetary Portals -- The Imperial Museum Matrix -- From Alien Rock to Geological Sample -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 6 Of Stars and Wheat: Making Sense of the Cosmos in a Regional Museum of Cosmonautics -- Foregrounding the Museum -- Methodology -- From Kraevedenie to Cosmovedenie -- Our Very Own Cosmonaut -- Exhibiting Space -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 7 From Mexico to the Moon: (Outer)spatialising Ethnography -- Mexico and the Moon -- Rabbit in the Moon.

Imaginary Voyages -- Mexican NewSpace -- The Moon and the Dark Sky -- Ethnography and Outer Space -- Final Reflexions -- Notes -- References -- 8 Are We Still Anthropologists If We Go to Space Using Only Our Imaginations? -- Moment 1: Participant-Observation of the Moon -- Moment 2: Obsessive Feelings About Space Food -- Moment 3: Bringing the ISS Home -- References -- 9 Terraforming a Field Site: Reflections On Crafting Knowledge On Mars -- Earth/Mars Vacillation -- Bricolage -- What Happened -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 10 Composing the Cosmos: Tuning Into Multiplicities With Thai Buddhist Concepts -- Inside the Milky Way -- A View From Thailand: Multiplicities and Hybridity -- A Future Encounter in Outer Space -- On Selfhood -- On Existence -- On Nature -- Singular Reality Troubles -- Conclusion: The Milky Way in Motion Within the Pluriverse -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 11 Divining South Korea's Space Age Through Korean Shamanism and Astrology (Myŏngni) -- Brief Overview of Korean Astrology (Myŏngni) -- President Yoon's Space Age -- Divination in Space Towns -- Conclusion -- Note On Romanisation and Translation -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 12 Space Intentionally Left Blank -- Peter: The Expanding Universe of New Space -- Tracing Connections in the New Space Economy -- Karlijn: The State of "Outer Space" -- Expropriation in French Guiana -- Infrastructure of Kourou -- Myriad of Other Meanings of Space -- Leaving Space for Multiplicities -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 13 Methodological Sensibilities in Outer Spaces -- Going Multidimensional -- Cultivating Interpositional Sensibilities -- Cultivating Contemplative Sensibilities -- Sensibilities as Method -- References -- 14 … a Response -- I -- II -- Longue Dur ee -- Montage/bricolage -- III -- References -- Index.

This book explores new methods and perspectives in the anthropology of outer space. For the past ten years, scholarship of outer space has grown significantly in the social sciences. Now, an international community of anthropologists is starting to produce significant contributions to this work.

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