Sci-Fi: An Anthropology Anthology of Other Worlds

Authors

Kailey Rocker, Lawrence University
Genevieve Frank, Lawrence University
Miranda Lile, Lawrence University
Meridian Ondrejka, Lawrence University
Nyhan O'Sullivan, Lawrence University
Leo Plunkett, Lawrence University
Lukas Schmerse, Lawrence University
Percy Schneider, Lawrence University
Iris Roxanne Shykula, Lawrence University
Sophia Weiss-Priebe, Lawrence University

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Description

In this magazine, student authors at Lawrence University explore the relationship between science fiction and ethnography. While different in terms of content, writing style, audience, and author, the two genres share an important objective: to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange. In exploring human variation and the diversity of cultural knowledge, anthropological accounts (ethnography) challenge the anthropologist and the reader to understand that their perspective of the world around them is one among many. Likewise, science fiction presents a world with its own logics that simultaneously comfort and estrange the reader. While science fiction and ethnography offer an opportunity to explore imagined and actual human variation, they can also hold up the mirror to our own society.

Publication Date

2025

Publisher

Lawrence University

City

Appleton, WI

Disciplines

Anthropology | Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Fiction | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Recommended Citation

Rocker, Kailey, ed. (2025). Sci-Fi: An Anthropology Anthology of Other Worlds. 1. Lawrence University. https://lux.lawrence.edu/anth_sci-fi/1.