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Imaginary Worlds = Invitation to an Argument /

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Title/Author:	Imaginary Worlds/ by Wayne Fife.
Reminder of title:	Invitation to an Argument /
Author:	Fife, Wayne.
Description:	VII, 154 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Anthropology and the arts. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08641-0
ISBN:	9783031086410

Imaginary Worlds = Invitation to an Argument /
Fife, Wayne.

Imaginary WorldsInvitation to an Argument /[electronic resource] :by Wayne Fife. - 1st ed. 2022. - VII, 154 p.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. - Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology.

Chapter One: Imaginary Worlds in a Comparative Framework.-Chapter Two: Steampunk as Stealth Politics -- Chapter Three: The Perils of Belief – Fantasy Fiction as Narrative Theology -- Chapter Four: Androids as Slaves – Lessons from the Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick -- Chapter Five: Imaginary Worlds and Contemporary Alienation.

In this work, the author contends that we should create a comparative framework for the study of imaginary worlds in the social sciences. Making use of extended examples from both science fiction and fantasy fiction, as well as the living movement of steampunk, the reader is invited to an argument about how best to define imaginary worlds and approach them as social locations for qualitative research. It is suggested in this volume that increasing economic and existential forms of alienation fuel the contemporary surge of participation in imaginary worlds (from gaming worlds to young adult novels) and impel a search for more humane forms of social and cultural organization. Suggestions are made about the usefulness of imaginary worlds to social scientists as places for both testing out theoretical formulations and as tools for teaching in our classrooms. Wayne Fife is Professor of Anthropology at Memorial University, Canada and the author of Doing Fieldwork and Counting as a Qualitative Method, as well as many journal articles on heritage and eco-tourism, economic inequality and education, play as politics, social alienation, ethnographic research methods, and implicit forms of religion. .

ISBN: 9783031086410

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-08641-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1392073
Anthropology and the arts.

LC Class. No.: GN429-437

Dewey Class. No.: 700.4552

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