Geeking Out with Louise Krasniewicz
By Emma Louise Backe Louise Krasniewicz teaches anthropology classes on zombies, steampunk, science fiction and comic books. As a self-proclaimed…
Definitions of Geek
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…
Freaks & Geeks: A Cultural History of the Term “Geek”
By Emma Louise Backe As a blog interested in the anthropological study of geek culture, we are also concerned with…
Bones, Betazoids and Battleaxes: Life and Times of an Anthrogeek
My mother was (and is) a fan of all things science fiction and fantasy. She named me Rayna after an…
Scholarly Hipsters, Scholarly Geeks, Part 1: Definitions
By Nick Mizer Over at the Savage Minds blog, Alex Posecznick has been writing a thought-provoking series on “Anthroplogists as Scholarly Hipsters.”
