Any anthropologists out there?

[ellen_kushner]

After 3 days of intense & furious editing of everyone else's Bordertown stories, I am now working on my own. My character is a grad student in cultural anthropology, who had the bright idea of going to B'town to do field work among the elves (or Truebloods, as they call themselves).  Ideally he'd go right into the Realm, but of course no human can

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[heavenscalyx]

I assume that semen transactions are Right Out.

[ellen_kushner]

Hey - I wonder if I can just talk to Dr. Kerey (duhhh)?

[heavenscalyx]

Emailing you!

[tylik]

Trade and Bargaining: Systems of Exchange Among the Elves.

(I want to say something kind of the equivalent of the "overseas business community of" but I'm blanking. But I like the cultural loadedness of dealmaking.)

[shelly_rae]

Same Sex Relations and the Economies of Exchange in Bordertown: A Study of the Effects of Kinship, Sex and Power.

Queer Theory and economies were big research topics in the 90s-2000s and the use of kinship ties to manipulate power structures is always interesting. We also call it politics.
Anon

Don't make it kinship systems!

[kestrelsparhawk]

Hi ya. Lurker butting in -- but my PhD research skill was ethnography, which means several (not all that recent anthro classes

[wordsofastory]

Kinships systems are no longer much of a topic, so at least you don't have to write about that