Outlander Anthropology
By Emma Louise Backe A couple of weeks ago, Alex Golub wrote a post for Savage Minds about how Guardians…
Fantasy
The Life Well Played – Spot Check 23
by NICK MIZER Spot Check returns! In this episode I talk about the role of conventions in gaming culture, the…
Magic & Morphemes: A Conversation with Donna Jo Napoli
By Emma Louise Backe Donna Jo Napoli is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, and the acclaimed…
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Witches and Modern Women
By Emma Louise Backe Two weeks ago, I published a piece on modern monsters and their meanings within contemporary pop…
The Geek Anthropologist 