Anthro Blogging 101: Allegra Lab
In this edition of Anthropology Blogging 101, we welcome Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and Julie Billaud, Editors in Chief at Allegra Lab. Tell us…
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Get Excited and Buy Things
“If geek culture is defined by “the method of consumption,” then the part of identity that deals with our access to the means of consumption, class, has a defining relationship to geek identity. That relationship is necessarily different from the relatively accidental relationships that geek identity has with race and class.”
Consumption, Performance and Identity in Cosplay
By Emma Louise Backe Featured Image by Secret Identity Cosplay and Buzzfeed. Other images included in the article were taken by the…
Notes From the Field: Is this Skyrim? Déjà vu from a Video Game
Anthropologists go through some unique experiences as they conduct fieldwork. From experimenting with drugs to seeing people who have been…
The Games! They’re Alive!
Living Games, which started in 2014 at the NYU Game Center, is “a conference devoted to discussing all aspects of live action role-playing (larp) theory and practice.”
The Geek Anthropologist 