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Anthropology Magazine

A dark building is featured with white trimmed windows, a white door, and six white columns underneath a dark clock face.

Predominantly White Institutions’ Overtures to Black Students OR This Is What They Tell You Without Telling You

An elderly woman with short brown hair and glasses wearing a blue, black, and white shirt stands in front of a portrait of a seated woman wearing a blue dress in front of pink curtains in Cyprus.

A Lens on Cyprus Reunification

Two white huts with conical thatched roofs are surrounded by a well-kept lawn and small bushes. A post with two signs is on the left.

What Does It Mean to Decolonize Heritage?

Four people wearing light-colored, wide-brimmed hats and holding hoes stand on dry dirt in an open area surrounded by small green shrubs.

Climate Migrants Are on the Move—And the U.S. Needs Their Help

Three colorful figures made of paper hold colored pencils and stand around a black book called “The Story of Migration.” A drafting table covered in scraps of paper fills the background.

Animating Stories of Global Migration

A black sign with white letters is on the left beside a grove of tall trees and the moss-covered ruins of a building.

When Asked if the World Would End They Answer No

A series of three paintings with gold backgrounds. Each painting shows a bullet wound surrounded by red blood splatter that turns into flower petals.

When “Voluntary” Return Is Not a Real Option for Asylum-Seekers

Talea cellphone network - A campesino checks his cellphone while working in the fields outside of Talea de Castro, Mexico (the mountain village in the distance to the upper left).

Why a Mexican Village’s DIY Cellphone Network Matters

What Problems Does Organic Cotton Solve?

Chile democracy dignity - A protestor in 2020 in Santiago waves the Chilean flag.

A Radical Recentering of Dignity

american cultural divide

Bridging the American Cultural Divide

The photograph features many people in a sunny, open plaza with buildings towering above on three sides.

Confronting the Colonial Legacies of Museum Collections

climate interactive

How to Make Climate Change Feel Real

San Miguel Island - Sea lion populations off the California coast bounced back after the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.

When Marine Mammals Clash With Archaeological Heritage

cocoa production - Chocolate comes from processing the seeds found in the fruit, or “pods” (shown here), of the cacao tree.

The Bitter Side of Cocoa Production

New opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration among field- and lab-based scientists have come about through the rise of biomolecular archaeology.

Archaeology Is Having a Great Century So Far