Anthropology and Science Fiction with Pat Edwards - Ep 181

Pat Edwards is an author, game builder, and creator of all kinds of sci-fi and fantasy content. We all sit down and puzzle through some questions about the boundaries between archaeological interpretation and fiction, the use of anthropological tropes in pop culture, and strategies for drawing from the archaeological record for fictional world-building. We had a blast with this unconventional topic, and we hope you enjoy listening!

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We Bet You'll Enjoy This Episode - Ep 114

This week, Anna and Amber have dealt you an excellent hand of examples of gambling, and the archaeology and anthropology thereof! Listeners, we hope you'll bear with us on this episode. We recorded on day three of the 2020 electoral vote counts, and we've both lost our minds. Come along on this ride with us as we explore what evidence we have for gambling in the archaeological record, and what we can learn from the types of games people play.

Links

• Gambling (Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology)

• There’s no such thing as a natural-born gambler (The Conversation)

• Gambling Across Cultures: Mapping Worldwide Occurrence and Learning from Ethnographic Comparison (International Gambling Studies)

• Per Binde - On Gambling

• Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight (The Interpretation of Cultures)

• When The Gambler Came To Chaco (American Archaeology)

• Sociopolitical, Ceremonial, and Economic Aspects of Gambling in Ancient North America: A Case Study of Chaco Canyon (American Antiquity)

• Visitors to Northern Australia: Debating the History of Indigenous Gambling (International Gambling Studies, via ResearchGate)

• Macassan History and Heritage (Australian National University)

• Where to gamble on the medieval Adriatic? (Medievalists.net)

• Queen Elizabeth I Held England’s First Official Lottery 450 Years Ago (Smithsonian)

• Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (New Yorker)

• Gaming among Enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and its uses in Navigating Social Interactions (W&M ScholarWorks)

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