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Chapter 1: Introduction:  Science Fiction, Anthropology and the Problem of Culture.- Chapter 2: Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians:  Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Modernist Anthropology and the Idea of Culture.- Chapter 3: Well-Wrought Cultures and Carrier Bags: Forms of Culture in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming Home.- Chapter 4:  Captivity, Conversion, Culture:  Octavia E. Butler's Genre-tic Engineering of Ethnography and Science Fiction in the Xenogenesis Trilogy.- Chapter 5: Resisting Culture:  Culture and/as Sovereignty in Indigenous Futurisms.- Chapter 6: Coda: Culture's Futures.

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      Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
      Publication Date: 06/03/2025
      ISBN13: 9783031804298, 978-3031804298
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      Chapter 1: Introduction:  Science Fiction, Anthropology and the Problem of Culture.- Chapter 2: Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians:  Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Modernist Anthropology and the Idea of Culture.- Chapter 3: Well-Wrought Cultures and Carrier Bags: Forms of Culture in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming Home.- Chapter 4:  Captivity, Conversion, Culture:  Octavia E. Butler's Genre-tic Engineering of Ethnography and Science Fiction in the Xenogenesis Trilogy.- Chapter 5: Resisting Culture:  Culture and/as Sovereignty in Indigenous Futurisms.- Chapter 6: Coda: Culture's Futures.

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