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200

20th century anthropological text credited with being the first in its genre.

What is Argonauts of the Western Pacific?

200

According one article from this quarter, they could help humanity get to Mars.

Who are anthropologists?

200

On this 1990s hit, you can find Mulder and Scully trying to find answers to the unexplained -- and sometimes confronting the realities of modernist conceptualizations of progress and extractive value.

What is the X-Files?

(see Season 1, Episode 20, "Darkness Falls"*)

200

Although often carrying a negative connotation, Tsing suggests that this is a form of encounter with generative implications.  

What is contaimination?

200

Where astronaut Sally Ride famously went in 1983. 

What is space (or low earth orbit)?

400

A story of science and monsters.

What is Forecasts? 

400

Unlike Ozymandias and J. Robert Oppenheimer, they make worlds along with human beings.

Who are nonhumans organisms?

400
A subgenre of anthropology that focuses on engaging non-specialist readers, viewers, and listeners.

What is public anthropology?

400

Systems of knowledge such as science and cosmology that contextualize how we determine what we know and on what basis.

What are epistemologies?

400

The only continent we haven't read about this quarter.

What is Antartica?

600

A project on pungent organisms and the process of commodification.

What is The Mushroom at the End of the World?

600

This archetypal character is deliberately absent from the Forecasts narrative.

Who are villains?

600

Building off of their work with Matsutake Worlds, Elaine Gan and Anna Tsing co-authored an article about the use of these kinds of drawings as a way of visualizing assemblages.

What are diagrams?

(see Gan and Tsing 2018, "How Things Hold"*)

600

Although used colloquially to describe a state of estrangement, in a historical-materialist definition it describes the fragmentation of social relations by capitalist ones. 

What is alienation?

600

City whose local climate policies and eco-friendly demonstration homes we explored in class.

What is Seattle? 

(or Manchester)

800

A book about writing ethnography from the perspective of an anthropologist with an unexpected passion for Chekov

What is Alive in the Writing?

800

According to Elizabeth Chin, they are social citizens of a capitalist society who are oblivious to commodity, alienation, and consumption,

Who are children?

(see My Life with Things, 2016).

800

An approach to planning that does not rely on reaching a specified target but avoiding a possible outcome. 

What is future perfect planning? 

(see Knox 2020, 165).

800

A conceptual framework coined by Edward Said to describe how categories of "the West" are created and defined in relation to "the rest" and the implications for conceptualizing difference.

What is Orientalism?

800

Liminal zone where you can see biopolitics at work.

What are geo-political borders?

1000

Discusses the use of demonstration homes to model ways of living in new technological and environmental contexts.

What is Thinking Like a Climate?

1000

A person made real by the system of knowledge and evidence that produced them.

Who is Vera the spy?

(see My Life as a Spy*)

1000

An experimentation in ethnographic film emphasizing experiential rather than intellectual ways of knowing. 

What is Leviathan?

1000

In their books, both Tsing and Knox discuss the formation of different kinds of these and how they might help us live in the context of climate change and ruin.

What are personhoods?

(see Knox on responsive personhood and Tsing on the co-creation of forests and people.)

1000

Where an ethnographer might be found.

What is where the people are (or, nearly anywhere)?

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