About

Anthropologist Gone Rogue (AGR) helps people travel better by providing them with insights and practices from anthropology. 

Through its collection of travel tips, which discuss said insights and practices, as well as (soon to come!) select travel products, AGR strives to create a community of like-minded travellers dedicated towards mastering the art of slow travel: the opting out of speeding through cramped itineraries to ‘see’ a country, for the ability to spend more time in fewer places so that one can better immerse themselves within their dream destinations – at home and abroad.

Dr. Fraser GermAnn is the director of Anthropologist Gone Rogue.  He is a socio-cultural anthropologist with a BA from The University of British Columbia, an MA from the University of Toronto, and a PhD from The University of British Columbia.  With over 20 years of experience travelling the world, he has also experience in archaeological excavations in Petra, Jordan, and has conducted ethnographic research in Vancouver, Canada and Bangkok, Thailand. 

Dr. GermAnn specializes in anthropological theory, the study of tourism and heritage, as well as religion, morality, and the social construction of identity.  His geographical interests (and heart) are in Thailand and Southeast Asia.  To see how these topics and interests intersect, you can see his dissertation, In the Footsteps of a Demon King, where he spent two and half years pursuing a demon across Bangkok, Thailand. 

His aim for AGR is to share with people the power of anthropology, so that they may use this power to see and engage the world for the better.

When he isn’t advocating for anthropology, and mastering the art of slow travel, he spends his time producing fine art black and white images.  You can see his work here.