{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F24cc06a1-62b0-4e98-90dc-4e6a217b730f","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Anthropology and Science Fiction - Ep 185\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/24cc06a1-62b0-4e98-90dc-4e6a217b730f\"></iframe>","title":"Anthropology and Science Fiction - Ep 185","description":"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.\nInterested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!\nConnect with James on Twitter: @paleoimaging\nLinks\n\nSpeculative Fiction (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature)\n\nFractured Fairy Tales (Rocky and Bullwinkle Wiki)\n\nIndian Epic Poetry & SF Origins (SciFi Fantasy Network)\n\nRead Mahabharata as science fiction: C Radhakrishnan (Deccan Chronicle)\n\nVimana Aircraft of India: More Sloppy Scholarship from David Childress (Jason Colavito)\n\nSeparating fact from ancient Indian science fiction (Live Mint)\n\nThe Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad (Japanese Fairy Tales, via Lit2Go)\n\nHafele\u2013Keating experiment (Wikipedia)\n\nThe Lucian of Samosata Project\n\nAbdallah the Fisherman and Abdallah the Merman (Wikisource)\n\nThe Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin)\n\nThe Dispossessed (Ursula K. LeGuin)\n\nUrsula Le Guin\u2019s Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity and Science Fiction (Theory, Culture & Society)\n\nHow Ursula Le Guin\u2019s Writing Was Shaped by Anthropology (Sapiens)\n\nIntroduction: Speculative Anthropologies (Society for Cultural Anthropology)\n\nThe Parable Series (Octavia E. Butler)\n\nThinking Parabolically: Time Matters in Octavia Butler\u2019s Parables (Society for Cultural Anthropology)\n\nWhy So Many Readers Are Turning to Octavia Butler\u2019s Apocalypse Fiction Right Now (Slate)\n\nOctavia Butler (Society for Cultural Anthropology)\n\nMothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism (Oakland Museum of California)\n\nAfrofuturism: From the Past to the Living Present (UCLA Newsroom)\n\nWhen is Wakanda: Imagining Afrofutures (The Long Now Foundation)\n\nRadical Reproduction: Octavia E. Butler\u2019s HistoFuturist Archiving as Speculative Theory (Women\u2019s Studies)\n\nThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (via WorldCat)\n\nAnthropology in Outerspace (The Geek Anthropologist)\n\nForensic TV Post-Mortem: The 5 Most And Least Accurate Episodes Of 'Bones' (Forbes)\n\nContact\nEmail the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com\nArchPodNet\n\nAPN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com\n\n\nAPN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet\n\n\nAPN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet\n\n\nAPN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet\n\n\nTee Public Store\n\nAffiliates\n\nWildnote\n\nTeePublic\n\nTimeular\n\nMotion","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/dddd1215-eeb0-4139-b885-732091a9088a/uploads-2f1612927465714-puvwh93kw2-3b3c967815ee02703f7cfe1c7eed.jpg"}