Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds

Author/Contributor(s):	Messeri, Lisa
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	09/09/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Lisa Messeri traces how planetary scientists--whether working in the Utah desert, a Chilean observatory, or the labs of MIT--transform celestial bodies into places in order to understand the universe as densely inhabited by planets, in turn telling us more about Earth, ourselves, and our place in the cosmos.