Susan Lepselter: 2 books
The Resonance of Unseen Things
Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood...
E.T. Culture
Anthropology in Outerspaces
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2006
Anthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or “alien” societies, yet few have considered the fluid communities centered around a shared belief in alien beings and UFO sightings and their effect on popular and expressive culture. Opening up a new frontier for anthropological...