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Anthropology Magazine

Una fotografía orientada hacia arriba muestra frondosas ramas de árboles cubiertas de mariposas naranjas y negras contra un cielo azul.

Sentirse vivo ante el batir de infinitas alas anaranjadas

A crowd faces a large outdoor screen showing video of a nuclear missile launching into a blue sky. Several buses are visible in the background.

What Commentators Get Wrong (and Right) About North Korea

Una sección transversal de color marrón claro de un árbol muestra anillos arbóreos estrechos y anchos.

Los anillos de los árboles son la prueba de la megasequía —y de nuestro destino funesto—

Directed upward, a photograph features leafy tree limbs covered with orange and black butterflies against a blue sky.

Alive in the Flapping of Infinite Orange Wings

A photograph features three macaques with red faces and beige fur soaking in hot springs as a person takes their picture with a cellphone.

Does “Monkeypox” Give Monkeys a Bad Name?

A person lies in bed next to a smartphone displaying numbers and symbols.

Are Insomniacs Overthinking Sleep?

Cultural Relativity

A crowd of people gather, with those in the front row reaching out to take green peppers from a pink colander.

Why Do (Some) Humans Love Chili Peppers?

A seated woman with short hair gestures with her hands and speaks into a large rectangular microphone positioned in front of her on a table.

Did Margaret Mead Think a Healed Femur Was the Earliest Sign of Civilization?

A light-brown cross section of a tree shows narrow and wide tree rings.

Tree Rings Are Evidence of the Megadrought—and Our Doom

Several women wearing heavy coats push baby carriages on a path at a border checkpoint, with people dressed in uniforms walking behind and next to them.

The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis’ Double Standard

Two Pioneering Female Archaeologists

Two pigs stand in a pen next to a chalkboard with writing in German.

The Cultural Anxieties of Xenotransplantation

A photo shows a hand holding a plastic cup filled with pink liquid and small bits of yellow and red fruit against a tiled pathway lined with grass, bushes, and trees.

How Filipino Sailors—and Coconuts—Helped Create Mexico’s National Drink

Cómo los marineros filipinos—y los cocos—ayudaron a crear la bebida nacional de México

A Hidden Figure in North American Archaeology

The Blockbuster Exhibit That Shouldn’t Have Been