Viewpoint
The Humans We Haven’t Met Yet
One anthropologist contends that far too many species have been lumped into one category: Our story is more complicated, he argues.
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Features
Popculture
What Netflix Got Wrong About Indigenous Storytelling
Two anthropologists look back on one of the year’s most binged animated shows on Netflix—the supernatural Filipino crime thriller Trese—and what it missed about the stories of Indigenous peoples.
Curiosities
The Blockbuster Exhibit That Shouldn’t Have Been
Museum curators have occasionally embellished archaeological finds with compelling but questionable stories. Consider the Field Museum's "Magdalenian Girl."
Poetry
I Carry My Grief With Me, but I Also Carry My Joy
The domino effect of anguish and loss unmoors, but a Black poet-anthropologist carries their joy as ritual—in the palms of their hands, soft, delicate.
Excerpt
Do Things Have to Be This Way?
In The Dawn of Everything, archaeologist David Wengrow and the late anthropologist David Graeber question the West’s most deeply entrenched—and often damaging—assumptions about human nature and society.
Lab Bench
Five Ways Native American Communities Honor Turkeys
Some Indigenous peoples in the U.S. Southwest have a long relationship with turkeys, which they use for their feathers, eggs, meat, and more.