Anthro-fiction

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Anthro-fiction is fiction written with an anthropologist's or ethnographer's bent. It has no elements of fantasy, and usually does without the futuristic technology of science fiction, but usually writes about traditional (hunter-gatherer, nomadic, Bronze Age, etc.) peoples, usually a tribe of humans. Always Coming Home by Ursula K. LeGuin is an example of anthro-fiction set on a future Earth.