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Coming in at an Unusual Angle: Exo-Surprise and the Fieldworking Cosmonaut

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Valentin Lebedev is a pioneer of space and earth science in Russia. He is also the first ethnographic diarist of outer space. In 1982, while “on orbit” for 211 days as a fieldworking cosmonaut, Lebedev produced a thickly descriptive account of the intimate sociality and technoculture of the Soviet
space complex Salyut 7. Crafted to defamiliarize (ostranenie) a spaceworld that publics saw as flawlessly engineered and managed, the diary is an argument for the value of exospheric (exo-) surprise in human experience. But on another level, we learn that the surprise is on humans who would
claim to conquer “space-as-itself”—a “zero gravity” environment of force fields both extremely inhospitable to life as we know it and also generative of life in all its expressions.

[Keywords: Alterity, outer space, defamiliarization, nature/culture, ethnographic theory]

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Anthropological Quarterly

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: George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research., 2012

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Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 4, p. 1089–1106

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English

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0003-5491

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ETNOLOGI

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