Happy Halloween from The Geek Anthropologist!
By Emma Louise Backe I think it’s safe to say that anthropologists don’t scare easily. During fieldwork, anthropologists may be…
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Freaks and Geeks: Geek Culture as Cosmogenesis and Cosmophagy
by NICK MIZER In a paper presented at the American Anthropological Association I developed a rough definition of geek culture…
Weekly Geek Out: Welcome to Night Vale
by NICK MIZER A week or so ago I decided to indulge a guilty pleasure and stop at Taco Bell…
Cultural Sociology vs Videogames: are We Gamer-Geeks a (Middle-Class) Subculture?
What do we mean when we call something a “subculture”? Most people think of weird and wonderful fashion and/or music…
The Weekly Geekout: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”
By Emma Louise Backe Well folks, it’s October again, which means that it’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) season….
