Moon Monogamy 1 – Qualifications: One, Two, Three, Twelve, Thirteen, and Twenty-Seven
Everyone thought the first generation would be a bunch of STEM-worshipping squares…
Anthropology in Outerspace
The Celestial Ethnographers: Imagining the Future of Anthropology in Star Trek Discovery
By Logan A. Kirkland & Joshua W. Rivers “Culture,” so-called, is implanted in nature; the environment, or Umwelt, is a model…
The Elysium Effect: Space Law and Commercial Space Disparities
By Savannah Mandel Have you ever seen Elysium? It’s a 2013 science fiction movie directed by Neill Blomkamp about a…
Conclusion: will this research be a 5 year mission?
This series is only the first step in our Anthropology in Outerspace project. Indeed, when we started writing it, we…
The Cool, the Nerdy and the Geeky: Rayna’s Response
This post is part of the series Anthropology in Outerspace which examines representations of anthropology in science-fiction. To read previous installments in…
The Geek Anthropologist 