UFO crash at Roswell : the genesis of a modern myth / Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles...
UFO crash at Roswell : the genesis of a modern myth / Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles...
UFO crash at Roswell : the genesis of a modern myth / Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles B. Moore.
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Publisher
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1997.
Call Numbers
T0370204
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xii, 198 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Mythogenesis: Historical Development of the Roswell Narratives -- 2. Analysis of the Roswell Myth: A Traditional Folk Motif Clothed in Modern Garb -- 3. The Early New York University Balloon Flights -- 4. Roswell and Religion -- 5. Three Images of Roswell -- App. 1. The Origins of the ML-307B/AP...
Directed by Enas el Degheidi.
Publication information
Publisher
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1997.
Analytical title
Dentelle.
Performers
Starring : Youssra, Elham Shaheen, Mahmoud Hemedia, Mahmoud Qabeel.
Place of Publication
District of Columbia
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
Transcending the believer-versus-skeptic debate, anthropologists Benson Saler and Charles A. Ziegler contend that the Roswell story is best understood as modern myth. Similar to traditional myths in transmission, structure, and motif, the story also taps into modern beliefs in the power of technology and the duplicity of a monolithic government. Th...
Alternative Titles
Full title
UFO crash at Roswell : the genesis of a modern myth / Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles B. Moore.
Variant title
Dentelle.
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.
Transferred from N001.9420978/3.
Audience note
Not rated.
Language note
In Arabic with English subtitles.
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Date Copyright
c1997.
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Call Numbers
T0370204
Record Identifier
74VvpBgm6VNb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvpBgm6VNb
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ISBN
1560987510 (alk. paper)
9781560987512 (alk. paper)
DDC
001.9420978943
MMS ID
991005403619702626
