Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space

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. Thi...

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Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space
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