This book shows how anthropology can provide an innovative perspective on the human movement into space. It examines adaptation to space on timescales of genera

Using philosophical and ethnographic theory, presents new approaches to ritual and memory, relating them to visual and sound images as acts of communication.

An ethnographic investigation into the dynamics between space and security in countries around the world It is difficult to imagine two contexts as different as

In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds t

Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions t