Anthropology and Science Fiction - Dirt 185

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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)