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Anthropology and Science Fiction - Dirt 185
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2 years agoIn 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)
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