1st Edition
UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge Imagining the Impossible in Chile
By Diana Espírito Santo
Copyright 2024
186 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction
1 Parallax
2 Paradox
3 Deceit
4 Dark
5 Trickster
Biography
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).
