Alien Reflections: Response to Extraterrestrial Anthropology
By Rayna Elizabeth Emma’s piece on extraterrestrial anthropology brings up several important points to consider when thinking about how we…
By Rayna Elizabeth Emma’s piece on extraterrestrial anthropology brings up several important points to consider when thinking about how we…
By Emma Louise Backe I’ve always been something of a science fiction geek, but it wasn’t until my senior year…
TGA’s exciting new fall series will examine representations of anthropology in science-fiction. Emma, Marie-Pierre and Rayna will discuss cases from various TV series, movies and books and what they reveal about popular perceptions on this science and its branches (archeology, linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology and sociocultural anthropology).
By Emma Louise Backe For centuries, humans have stared at the heavens, attempting to scry a pattern from the stars…
The TV shows we watch contribute to the shaping of our ideas and notions about the world we live in. On one hand, they can reinforce what we think we know, and the things we don’t realize shape us and our social relations.
In the first post of this series of three, I briefly explored how TNG authors reinforced, most likely unknowingly and unwillingly, certain notions about gender. The representations they gave of many female characters seem to suggest that women are second to men in terms of potential, and that their role is to assist their male boss, husband or father in their endeavors.