Lisa Messeri

Placing Outer Space

An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds

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Produktbeschreibung

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 that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Mars Desert Research Station and a NASA research center to discuss ways scientists experience and map Mars. At a Chilean observatory and in MIT's labs she describes how they discover exoplanets and envision what it would be like to inhabit them. Today's planetary science reveals the universe as densely inhabited by evocative worlds, which in turn tells us more about Earth, ourselves, and our place in the universe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362036
• ISBN-10: 0822362031
• Artikelnr.: 44037701

Autorenporträt

Lisa Messeri is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. From Outer Space to Outer Place  1
1. Narrating Mars in Utah's Desert  25
2. Mapping Mars in Silicon Valley  71
3. Visualizing Alien Worlds  111
4. Inhabiting Other Earths  149
Conclusion. Navigating the Infinite Cosmos  189
Notes  197
References  211
Index  231