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dc.contributor.authorCrook, Tony
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-07T15:50:31Z
dc.date.available2020-12-07T15:50:31Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-02
dc.identifier256653407
dc.identifier043601be-e1ba-4816-bc65-7915c1027fea
dc.identifier85057826222
dc.identifier000452419300003
dc.identifier.citationCrook , T 2018 , ' Earthrise +50 : Apollo 8, Mead, Gore and Gaia ' , Anthropology Today , vol. 34 , no. 6 , pp. 7-10 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12471en
dc.identifier.issn0268-540X
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-2387-1699/work/51470193
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/21063
dc.description.abstractThis article pivots from the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8, the first manned voyage to the moon, to reflect on the impact of ‘earthrise’ - seeing earth from lunar orbit - and to reflect on the vision’s meanings in an extended cultural history. The emerging anthropology of space considers the ‘overview effect’ of seeing the world and all of humanity all at once, and contemporary disciplinary debates over figuring and responding to ecological crisis similarly operate on a holistic scale. Whereas the Apollo 8 crew first saw the earth emerge sideways from behind a vertical horizon, the vision is conventionally depicted as the earth rising up above the moon’s flat horizon - a rotation indicative of a wider cultural turn in perspective. The article traces the wider impact of ‘earthrise’ through Al Gore’s portrayal of ‘holography’, Margaret Mead’s search for a ‘macroscope’, and a Pacific astronaut’s reminder of the cultural diversity of ways to live in equivalence on earth.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAnthropology Todayen
dc.subjectEarthriseen
dc.subjectApollo 8en
dc.subjectMargaret Meaden
dc.subjectAl Goreen
dc.subjectHolographyen
dc.subjectMacroscopeen
dc.subjectHawai’ien
dc.subjectGN Anthropologyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccGNen
dc.titleEarthrise +50 : Apollo 8, Mead, Gore and Gaiaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Social Anthropologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Pacific Studiesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Sustainability Instituteen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-8322.12471
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2020-12-02


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