The Geek Anthropologist

by NICK MIZER Filed under: Anthropology, Games / gaming, Spot Check Tagged: anthropology, games, gaming, geek, malinowski, methods, power, rpg, tabletop

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Blues Riffs and Session Pacing: Spot Check 22

June 13, 2014, 9:43 am

by NICK MIZER In this episode of Spot Check I talk about how the Old School Renaissance in tabletop gaming has helped to reconstruct older assumptions about gaming, and how those assumptions change our...

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The Life Well Played – Spot Check 23

September 23, 2014, 9:00 am

by NICK MIZER Spot Check returns! In this episode I talk about the role of conventions in gaming culture, the role of play in gamers’ lives (and deaths), and how Gary Con fits in to that.Filed under:...

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The Journey to Lake Geneva – Spot Check 24

October 2, 2014, 7:54 am

by NICK MIZER In which I pronounce Jason Azze’s name correctly, worry about “first contact” with old school gamers, and describe my first encounter with Gary Con, which has become an important site for...

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Color or Song or Choice Diction – Spot Check 25

November 20, 2014, 3:31 pm

by NICK MIZER How does the overall environment of gaming influence our experience of imaginary worlds? In this Spot Check I think about my experiences gaming in Denton, TX, and how the colors, music,...

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(Sometimes) Never Split the Party

February 16, 2015, 8:00 am

It’s one of the oldest and most common maxims in gaming, but why? Erving Goffman helps me understand why we (Sometimes) Never Split the Party. Have any good gaming stories about splitting the party? It...

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