Life Above Earth: An Introduction

dc.citation.firstpage203en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleCultural Anthropologyen_US
dc.citation.lastpage209en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber30en_US
dc.contributor.authorHowe, Cymeneen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-20T19:40:21Zen_US
dc.date.available2016-01-20T19:40:21Zen_US
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThis began as a wondering about wind, how it mattered, how it materialized across lives, and how it seemed to refuse to be represented—only becoming visible through its effects on other beings and other things: branch, bird, cloud, kite, sail, smoke. Wind finds itself with no terrestrial home, no borders to maintain, no ownership to be claimed.1 Its pressured and oscillating gases are the kinetic energy of the sky. Wondering into the wind leads us upward. It is an invitation to lose one’s footing. The curatorial force behind this first Openings and Retrospectives is to release our discipline from the earthly domains it has historically occupied, to float us to new ethnographic spheres and spaces untethered to worldly surfaces. If Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2014) has called for a “decolonization of thought,” this collection is meant as a deterrestrialization of thought. Life Above Earth is an exploration of vitalities, materials, and movements that are skyward, spacey, and atmospheric.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHowe, Cymene. "Life Above Earth: An Introduction." <i>Cultural Anthropology,</i> 30, no. 2 (2015) American Anthropological Association: 203-209. http://dx.doi.org/10.14506/ca30.2.03.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14506/ca30.2.03en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/87889en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Anthropological Associationen_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.titleLife Above Earth: An Introductionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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