It’s In the Cards: Narratives and Storytelling in Magic: The Gathering
By Steven Dashiell Gaming isn’t the focus of my research, but I’ve participated in it since I was 13 years…
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Game of Spoilers: A Spoiler-Free Investigation into the Role of Experience in Fandom
Fans maintain a careful balance between individually-experienced and community-accumulated information that is important for both the fan’s independent enjoyment and their fandom membership. Spoilers disrupt this balance, and by investigating spoilers we can understand it better.
The Book Review as Conversation
By Tom Boellstorff—University of California, Irvine The eight book reviews which will be published as a part of this series were…
Happy Halloween from The Geek Anthropologist!
By Emma Louise Backe I think it’s safe to say that anthropologists don’t scare easily. During fieldwork, anthropologists may be…
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Witches and Modern Women
By Emma Louise Backe Two weeks ago, I published a piece on modern monsters and their meanings within contemporary pop…
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