Posts Tagged 'anthropology of science fiction'

What I wish I could unlearn from Star Trek TNG / 1: Women are equal to men. In theory.
Anthropology, Gender, Science-fiction

What I wish I could unlearn from Star Trek TNG / 1: Women are equal to men. In theory.

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Since my blog’s creation last September, I have written about my (anthropological) perceptions of science-fiction on a few occasions.

In From Science-Fiction to Anthropology: there and back again, I described in detail the curiosity Star Trek and other sci-fi franchises have sparked in me for otherness and extreme alterity. This, I believe, is one of various elements that led me study anthropology, which in turn, brought me to be much more critical of the themes science-fiction explores.

First Japan, then Mars: Percival Lowell’s fascination with alterity
Anthropology, Science-fiction

First Japan, then Mars: Percival Lowell’s fascination with alterity

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Last week I posted about the relation between my passion for science-fiction and my career in anthropology. I stated that as I was growing up, I often challenged myself to imagine how aliens would look like if they were drastically different from humans. I also expressed my feeling that science-fiction authors, despite trying to imaging extreme otherness in the form of aliens, rarely create something that differs from the Western conceptions of what sentient beings are.