Twisted and Evil: Ableism in Star Wars
By Cindee Calton “Seriously, Star Wars? Again?” was the exact phrase that ran through my mind the first time Dryden…
Posts Tagged 'anthropology of geek culture'
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…
Monstrous possibilities: Kaiju as beauty and terror
By Esther R. Anderson Kaiju are giant monsters that can be seen causing filmic chaos without apparent cause or motive….
The Word: Rhetorics of Resistance in Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale
By Emma Louise Backe Dolores Abernathy—titular host in HBO’s Westworld series—spends most of the second season with a gun on…
So You Want to Write for The Geek Anthropologist?
You ever see those quippy article titles–the perfect combination of academic punnery and inside theory humor–pop up on your newsfeed,…
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