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02873cam a2200349 a 4500 |
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97008674 |
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DLC |
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20190729102642.0 |
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970402s1997 dcuab b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
97008674 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1560987510 (alk. paper) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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DLC |
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DLC |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
EY8Z |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
TL789.5.N6 |
| Item number |
S25 1997 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
001.942/09789/43 |
| Edition number |
21 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Saler, Benson. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
UFO crash at Roswell : |
| Remainder of title |
the genesis of a modern myth / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles B. Moore. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Washington : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Smithsonian Institution Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c1997. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 198 p. : |
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ill., maps ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Publisher description: An alleged flying saucer crash in 1947 in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, and a purported conspiracy by the federal government to conceal the wreckage form the central case in a fifty-year history of UFO sightings in the United States. Since the so-called Roswell Incident first gained widespread attention in the 1980s, various versions of the original story have surfaced, the government has conducted an exhaustive investigation of the incident, and more than one-quarter of American adults have become convinced that aliens have visited Earth. 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. The authors show how the Roswell story, like religious myths, asserts in an "unfalsifiable" narrative the existence of superior beings. Saler and Ziegler also describe the ways in which television and tabloid news- papers keep the story alive as folklore even while presenting it as expose. The book includes the account of scientist Charles B. Moore--who participated in an experiment to launch balloon-borne radar reflectors that occasionally crashed in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1947--that relates the probable historical core of the myth. The first book to analyze the incident as a cultural phenomenon, UFO Crash at Roswell shows how this story of a flying saucer crash provides not only a window on American values and beliefs but also a detailed account of the evolution of a myth. |
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| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Unidentified flying objects |
| General subdivision |
Sightings and encounters |
| Geographic subdivision |
New Mexico |
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Roswell. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Unidentified flying objects |
| General subdivision |
Social aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Folklore. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Myth. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ziegler, Charles A. |
| Fuller form of name |
(Charles Albert), |
| Dates associated with a name |
1927- |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Moore, Charles B., |
| Dates associated with a name |
1920- |
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u163527 |
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