Comments on: Star Trek: Four Fields in Space http://savageminds.org/2005/06/22/star-trek-four-fields-in-space/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Mon, 21 May 2012 15:01:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kathy http://savageminds.org/2005/06/22/star-trek-four-fields-in-space/comment-page-1/#comment-467 Kathy Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:54:17 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=107#comment-467 I see TNG as the post/modern anthropologists. Kirk's Enterprise, on the other hand, was much more parallel to early anthropology. Even more anthropological to me, though, is Voyager, because it totally has the "dumped in the field with no contact with home" experience going on, and thus you can see the characters going through stages of adjustment that ethnographers go through. Also, new race every week--but the balance here has decidedly shifted to humanistic intervention, I think. I see TNG as the post/modern anthropologists. Kirk’s Enterprise, on the other hand, was much more parallel to early anthropology.

Even more anthropological to me, though, is Voyager, because it totally has the “dumped in the field with no contact with home” experience going on, and thus you can see the characters going through stages of adjustment that ethnographers go through. Also, new race every week–but the balance here has decidedly shifted to humanistic intervention, I think.

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]]> By: mattH http://savageminds.org/2005/06/22/star-trek-four-fields-in-space/comment-page-1/#comment-454 mattH Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:03:36 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=107#comment-454 Star Trek: TNG was always the more overtly anthropological, especially in reflection of some imagined ideal of what anthropology is. Star Trek: TNG was always the more overtly anthropological, especially in reflection of some imagined ideal of what anthropology is.

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]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2005/06/22/star-trek-four-fields-in-space/comment-page-1/#comment-425 Rex Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:45:23 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=107#comment-425 The short-lived TV series 'Alien Nation' was always sort of richly textured this way -- metaphors of race, cultural difference, gender expectations etc. The short-lived TV series ‘Alien Nation’ was always sort of richly textured this way — metaphors of race, cultural difference, gender expectations etc.

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