Others From The Ancient (in Archeology) to The Alien (in SETI) DVD

Kathryn Denning is an archaeologist, anthropologist and assistant professor of Anthropology at York University. Her research examines scholarly and popular ideas about Others, their relationships to us, and how we can know them. The Others include the ancient (in archaeology), the animal (in zoos), and the alien (in SETI). Her recent focus has been on the scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence [SETI], particularly scientists' conceptions of the alien Other and how scientists' reasoning processes (e.g. use of Earth civilizations and historical intercultural contacts as analogies), impact the process, the technology and sites used to search the sky for signals, and ideas about how one might communicate with a radically different intelligence.Much of Dennings research has addressed disparate ways of knowing, creating, and representing the archaeological past, and related topics in the philosophy of archaeology.

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