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…
Study of geek culture
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…
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…
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…
The Geek Anthropologist 