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Introduction to Semiotics of Cultures, 2010
Anthropologists! Anthropologists!… in comics
Vesa Matteo Piludu
University of Helsinki
- Anthropologists! Anthropologists!
Connecting present and past a la Lévi-Strauss
From the Eternals: Gods and Men at the City College
Why anthropology is useful?
Batgirl has a negative attitudes toward cultural relativism…
Brain Boy: the anthropologist super hero
Brain Boy, the studious superhero
Brain Boy, the studious superhero appeared in six full-length color comics published by Dell between 1962 and 1963.
Brain Boy was theoretically and empirically versatile: battling Latin American dictators and extraterrestrials between
the covers of a single issue — and always in a suit and tie!
