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Immersing in a new culture Students see what it’s like to live and participate in the Native American community. Want to truly walk a mile in someone else’s shoes? Try an ethnographic field school. It’s an immersive experience where you live within another culture. Dr. William Meadows, professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Missouri State University, leads a 6-week experience for his students, living with a Kiowa family. He also integrates his students with members of the Plains Apache and Comanche tribes. For the students, staying in a teepee is a step toward understa...

January 8, 2021 42 Minutes This is the fourth part of a four part (I, II, III) look at the Dothraki from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones. We’re looking at, in particular, if Martin’s claim that the Dothraki are “an amalgam of a number of steppe and plains cultures” can be sustained in the face of even basic knowledge about historical Steppe and Great Plains nomadic peoples. Last week, we concluded that the vast majority of Dothraki culture, social organization, economic practices and family structure are effectively completely unte...