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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
Anthropological super-heroes
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!