Magical Maladies and Injuries: Cultural Appropriation in J. K. Rowling’s Ilvermorny
Although the final book in the Harry Potter saga, The Deathly Hallows, was published almost a decade ago, J. K….
Posts Tagged 'indigenous peoples'
Meet Your Makers: First Contact Scenarios in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
By Emma Louise Backe Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012) was an epic, existential prologue to Alien (1979) over twenty years in…
Conclusion: will this research be a 5 year mission?
This series is only the first step in our Anthropology in Outerspace project. Indeed, when we started writing it, we…
Grokking and Going Native: Rayna’s Response
This post is part of the series Anthropology in Outerspace which examines representations of anthropology in science-fiction. To read previous installments in…
Anthropologists: Ethnographic Heroes? Marie-Pierre’s response
My colleague Rayna presents us with interesting observations on the representations of anthropologists in science-fiction: in her opinion, they are…
The Geek Anthropologist 