Frightening Fictions: Lore Podcast Review
By Emma Louise Backe Journalists are widely speculating that we live in the “Golden Age” of podcasts, ushered in by the success of podcasts like Serial or Invisibilia.…
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It Belongs In A Museum: Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology Review
By Emma Louise Backe Although Indiana Jones is a beloved cinematic figure—the consummate swashbuckling archaeologist—his representation of archaeological theories and methodologies has been a point of…
Respectable Magic
By Emma Louise Backe Magic has returned to England. This past summer, two shows in particular dealt explicitly with the problem of magic, Penny Dreadful and the BBC…
Geeks Gone D.I.Y.: A Quick Guide to Zines
By Marissa Lorusso In many societies, the power of the written word is unequally distributed: access to literacy and literature, along with editing, publishing, and distribution don’t always…
Playing Along: Fieldwork, Emotional Labor and Self-Care
By Emma Louise Backe For any practicing or aspiring anthropologist, fieldwork is the defining, almost qualifying practice of the discipline. As an undergraduate studying sociocultural anthropology, we…
The Many Roles of Popular Culture in Therapy
By Peter Olthoff As many therapists will tell you, if you cannot build rapport with the client, if you cannot establish a solid therapeutic relationship, then you simply…
Anthropology Blogging 101: Anthropologizing
By Amy Santee This post is part of the Anthropology Blogging 101 series. I started Anthropologizing in 2011 after I finished grad school at The University of Memphis. The…
Mapping the rainforest? I’ve got an app for that.
By Gill Conquest When I was a kid, the one thing I wanted more than anything else in the world was a computer-in-a-book, where I could look up…
The Character of Sexual Harassment at Cons
By Emma Louise Backe At an event where hundreds of individuals from around the country converge in capes and costumes, the symbols and trappings of heroism, we don’t…
Book Review: I See My Representation and I Will Raise You, Identification
By Dan Gardner To read Tom Boellstorff’s introduction to this book reviews series, head over to The Book Review as Conversation. “In a fictional world where I can use magic…
A Geek’s Guide to Washington D.C.’s AwesomeCon
By Emma Louise Backe Awesome Con is in Washington, D.C. this weekend and I can’t wait to see the Metro flooded with cyborgs, otaku and every version of…
Queering Representation in Games: A review of Adrienne Shaw’s Gaming at the Edge
By Evan Conaway To read Tom Boellstorff’s introduction to this book reviews series, head over to The Book Review as Conversation. “Identification is not about a static, linear, measurable connec…
Pixels and Politics: Representation in Video Games
By Christine Tomlinson To read Tom Boellstorff’s introduction to this book reviews series, head over to The Book Review as Conversation. T. L. Taylor. 2006. Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online…