TGA Editors’ Picks: Favorite Posts of 2018
Like the maelstrom of political media, 2018 was also an eventful year for anthropology. Anthropology Twitter was kept occupied with…
Posts Tagged 'Star Trek'
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…
Notes From the Field: Dwelling in the Worlds that Carry Us
After some field work in northern Canada, Marie-Pierre wrote two articles about how her field work experiences connected with imagined…
Get Excited and Buy Things
“If geek culture is defined by “the method of consumption,” then the part of identity that deals with our access to the means of consumption, class, has a defining relationship to geek identity. That relationship is necessarily different from the relatively accidental relationships that geek identity has with race and class.”
Notes From the Field: Is this Skyrim? Déjà vu from a Video Game
Anthropologists go through some unique experiences as they conduct fieldwork. From experimenting with drugs to seeing people who have been…
The Geek Anthropologist 