Anthropology of Science Fiction and Fantasy

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This course examines how anthropology and science fiction (more broadly, speculative fiction [SF]) each explore ideas about culture and society, morality, technology, power and "life" in other worlds. Through engagement with different kinds of materials, the class will revisit fundamental and contemporary concepts in anthropology (and life) such as relativism, first contact, national and cultural identities, class, gender, morality, religion, race, gender, politics, violence, war and others. Prerequisite(s): A ANT104 and A ANT 108.