“Of Crickets and Gourds: Pokemon as Ancient Chinese Folk Game”
BY JARED MIRACLE Full disclosure: I love Pokemon. For some people, being passionate about a topic invalidates research by destroying…
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Deep Multiplayer: Pokemon’s 2000-Year History and Social Impact
Just a brief introduction here: this is a lecture given by Jared Miracle on the cultural history behind Pokemon. Tomorrow…
The Weekly Geekout: My Little Pony FIM
A little over a year ago, I decided I wanted to understand what the buzz was about over My Little…
Freaks & Geeks: Freedom from the Outside
In the previous Freaks and Geeks articles, we examined the origin of the geek concept in culture through its etymology…
The Weekly Geekout: Reflections from #AAA2014
By Emma Louise Backe They are an unusual tribe: gathering in small, clandestine clusters, hugging or kissing over common cohorts…
The Geek Anthropologist 