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Justin Pickard

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Diana Espirito Santo: UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge (EBook, 2024, Routledge)

This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on …

Diana Espirito Santo: UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge (EBook, 2024, Routledge)

This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on …

I approached ufology, first, as a researcher interested in paradigms of evidence. But then I began to focus on those stories about experiences that made no sense to the experiencer. I could have brushed them off; or archive them to later sort out. They represented the conceptual void, or nothingness, of fieldwork. What did not fit the data. But I was drawn like a moth to a fire.

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