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Anthropology Magazine

A photograph features a large desert plain scattered with brush and cacti with a sun setting behind a distant horizon lined with mountains.

Rock Drawings

A photograph features a large tree fully topped with green leaves along the side of a dirt road and in front of an iron and concrete fence that encloses green grass. A car is partially visible in the foreground, and beige buildings lie in the background.

A Tree’s Tongue

Rhyme & Reason: Poetry as a Cultural and Communal Bridge

A photograph features five people in colorful clothing standing on cement tiles in front of tall trees and green grass.

How a Song Bridged Diné and Ndebele Worlds

The photograph features a person with a hearing aid sitting next to a person smiling on a couch. They face each other and communicate using sign language.

How Deaf and Hearing Friends Co-Navigate the World

An illustration in color shows ancient humans painting mammoths on a cave wall.

Did Neanderthals Make Art?

A person with dark curly hair and a person wearing a black hat lean through and over blue metal bars and use white tools to flatten and smooth painted fabric on a concrete wall.

Crystal Worl’s Countermural Tells a Different History of Alaska

A person with a shaved head wearing a grey long-sleeved shirt holds a black, purple, white, and yellow striped flag over their head.

Why English Might Let Go of “He” and “She”

A comic strip colored in blue, green, and red tones.

How People Actually Use Their Smartphones

A painting of five framed portraits on a wall and young children in color interacting with older people who are black and white.

Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora

A black stuffed figure with large eyes and a wide mouth wearing a black hat lies beside a black, white, and yellow comic book on a dark wooden table.

Can Indigenous Language Comics Save a Mother Tongue?

A painting of five framed portraits on a wall and young children in color interacting with older people who are black and white.

Five Questions About Writing the African Diaspora

Two young people sit facing each other with paper on their laps. Behind them are large photos and a large grey storyboard.

How Migrant Filmmakers Practice Archival Activism

Ochirbatyn Dashbalbar

Grass Trilogy

anthropological poems

Why Poetry + Anthropology?

In 1972, a Māori activist group gathered more than 30,000 signatures on this petition asking the New Zealand government to introduce Māori language classes in schools.

How to Resurrect Dying Languages