DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE AND THE CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE AND THE CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: This paper is inspired by two trends in two disciplines – cultural anthropology, and the dystopian literature. In addition to arguing that the SF genre emerged greatly as a result of social science research and particularly of anthropology, it looks at some of the contemporary problems that cultural anthropology deals with and merges it with the themes of this, now reemerging genre. Most of the well-known dystopian novels talk about the power and likely negative consequences of technology, technocracy and its omni-controlling power. Comparing the motives of dystopian literature (its reaction towards reality or the world as we know it), its questioning of the moral and human aspects of war, science, violence, technology, etc, with the most recent issues that contemporary cultural anthropology deals with, is the primary focus of this paper. Its aim to show the strengths of this interdisciplinarity is the key motive of this work.

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