Anthropology and Science Fiction - Ep 185

In a SURPRISE THIRD INSTALLMENT of our discussion of sci fi and archaeology, we talk about two giants of world building, Octavia E Butler and Ursula K LeGuin. We also talk about a few fictional anthropologists of TV and cinema.

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Links

• Speculative Fiction (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature)

• Fractured Fairy Tales (Rocky and Bullwinkle Wiki)

• Indian Epic Poetry & SF Origins (SciFi Fantasy Network)

• Read Mahabharata as science fiction: C Radhakrishnan (Deccan Chronicle)

• Vimana Aircraft of India: More Sloppy Scholarship from David Childress (Jason Colavito)

• Separating fact from ancient Indian science fiction (Live Mint)

• The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad (Japanese Fairy Tales, via Lit2Go)

• Hafele–Keating experiment (Wikipedia)

• The Lucian of Samosata Project

• Abdallah the Fisherman and Abdallah the Merman (Wikisource)

• The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin)

• The Dispossessed (Ursula K. LeGuin)

• Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity and Science Fiction (Theory, Culture & Society)

• How Ursula Le Guin’s Writing Was Shaped by Anthropology (Sapiens)

• Introduction: Speculative Anthropologies (Society for Cultural Anthropology)

• The Parable Series (Octavia E. Butler)

• Thinking Parabolically: Time Matters in Octavia Butler’s Parables (Society for Cultural Anthropology)

• Why So Many Readers Are Turning to Octavia Butler’s Apocalypse Fiction Right Now (Slate)

• Octavia Butler (Society for Cultural Anthropology)

• Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism (Oakland Museum of California)

• Afrofuturism: From the Past to the Living Present (UCLA Newsroom)

• When is Wakanda: Imagining Afrofutures (The Long Now Foundation)

• Radical Reproduction: Octavia E. Butler’s HistoFuturist Archiving as Speculative Theory (Women’s Studies)

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (via WorldCat)

• Anthropology in Outerspace (The Geek Anthropologist)

• Forensic TV Post-Mortem: The 5 Most And Least Accurate Episodes Of 'Bones' (Forbes)

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Science Fiction and Anthropology: Part 2! - Ep 184

We're back! And we're continuing our exploration of science fiction in archaeology AND anthropology in science fiction. Last time, we talked to author Pat Edwards about world-building and storytelling--this time, we tell the stories. Amber gets speculative, Anna spins some yarns, and we investigate the Thousand and One Nights.

Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!

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• Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com

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Studying Salvage Anthropology w/ Samuel Redman - Ep 176

We dive into Dr. Samuel Redman’s latest book, Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Amber and Anna (mostly Amber) have lots of questions about the seemingly paradoxical 19th- and 20th- century urge by American scholars to “rescue” objects and even human remains from “disappearing” Indigenous groups. It’s a fascinating window into anthropology viewed as a moral and academic obligation, and the social underpinnings of the development of the discipline in the US. And! You can enter to win your very own copy of Ghosts and Prophets! Harvard University Press generously hooked us up with three copies to give away. The promotion is running via Twitter and Instagram, so keep an eye out for those posts for the extremely low-effort rules for entering.

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Links

• Prophets and Ghosts (via WorldCat)

• Samuel J. Redman (UMass Amherst)

• Wendy Red Star’s 1880 Crow Peace Delegation (Birmingham Museum of Art)

• Wendy Red Star’s Children of the Large-Beaked Bird (MASS MoCA)

• Blanket Stories: Transportation Object, Generous Ones, Trek (Marie Watt Studio)

• Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution)

Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com

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