ABSTRACT
Space anthropology is a booming topic in the social sciences and the humanities, but it presents challenges to a discipline that has traditionally emphasised “being there” as a methodological and epistemological principle. A second issue has been a natural tendency to undertake anthropological research around outer space in countries and regions with a recognised history of space activities, privileging hegemonic world centres. This chapter takes up both challenges, using a study of the Mexican space industry, largely left out of discussions of the outer space sector, as the basis for a discussion of methodological strategies for undertaking anthropological studies of outer space.
