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Le Guin’s Anthropology: Why Worldbuilding Is Culture, Not Just Geography

Le Guin grew up steeped in anthropology. Her father, Alfred Kroeber, was a pioneering cultural anthropologist, and she carried its method into fiction. That method is what lets a culture feel derived rather than invented.

By Alyssa Glasco, Founder · Published

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