Placing Outer Space – An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds Messeri Paperback

Placing Outer Space\nby Lisa Messeri\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Lisa Messeri\nTitle: Placing Outer Space\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural anthropology\nPublisher: MD - Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822362036\nISBN-10: 0822362031\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn 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 .