Replicants and Reproduction: Blade Runner 2049 and Sci Fi’s Obsession with Motherhood
By Emma Louise Backe (Warning: Blade Runner 2049 spoilers.) From the outset of Blade Runner 2049, Agent K (Ryan Gosling)…
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World Anthropology Day: Grokking as a Geek Anthropologist
In honor of World Anthropology Day 2017, we’re sharing the text from an AnthroTalk presentation on what it means to…
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…
Storytelling and Worldbuilding in The Force Awakens
As Star Wars moves forward, it is drawing larger audiences into what the now-apocryphal Expanded Universe (EU) stories have been doing with the world for a long time: expanding the horizons, filling in gaps, and doing the other work necessary for worldbuilding. And here’s the thing: we’ve spent a lot of time studying stories, and not that much time studying worlds.
Aliens Among Us: Extraterrestrial Anthropology
By Emma Louise Backe I’ve always been something of a science fiction geek, but it wasn’t until my senior year…
The Geek Anthropologist 