Abstract Human space travel has largely been understood through a physiological and psychological lens but rarely sociologically or anthropologically. Drawing on astronaut testimony, experiences of microgravity environments, laboratory experiments and art practice this paper argues that gravity, or rather its absence, offers a unique vantage point through which to consider the human relationship to emotion, cognition, and the curation of social relations via experiences of the body in different gravitational environments. The analysis draws attention to the contextual, embodied and contingent moments of social relations through using a holistic materialist position with theories of affect and work on the anthropology of the body. An anthropology of gravity recognises the ethno-physical conditions of space-living by showing that microgravity environments disturb the habitual affective landscapes of human interaction. It suggests that body, emotion, social relations and environment can be better understood when they are contextualised by the underlying forces that operate subtly throughout them; forces that are more fully understood once they are no longer present.

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走向重力人类学：微重力环境中的情感和体现

摘要 人类太空旅行在很大程度上是通过生理和心理角度来理解的，但很少从社会学或人类学角度来理解。借鉴宇航员的证词、微重力环境的经验、实验室实验和艺术实践，本文认为重力，或者说它的缺失，提供了一个独特的有利位置，通过它来考虑人类与情感、认知和社会关系管理的关系。身体在不同重力环境中的体验。该分析通过使用整体唯物主义立场以及情感理论和对身体人类学的研究，将注意力集中在社会关系的情境、具体和偶然时刻。重力人类学通过表明微重力环境会干扰人类互动的习惯性情感景观来识别太空生活的民族物理条件。它表明，当身体、情感、社会关系和环境被微妙地贯穿其中的潜在力量情境化时，可以更好地理解它们；一旦它们不再存在，就会更充分地理解这​​些力量。