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Anthropology Magazine

The Birth Whisperers of Timor-Leste

Katarin Ladu, a South Sudanese refugee living in a settlement called Pagirinya in northern Uganda, stands on the small plot of land where she is trying to grow pea leaves. Like hundreds of thousands of others, she primarily subsists on World Food Program rations of maize, beans, sorghum, and other staples.

South Sudanese Refugees and the Taste of Displacement

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Will GMOs Put an End to Hunger? Ask the Hungry

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Hmong Gardeners in America’s Dairyland

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Lao Camp Food (Part 2)

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Lao Camp Food (Part 1)

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A handsome man kneels deep in the forest.

The Myth of the Virgin Rainforest

As with food, how coffee is prepared varies greatly from culture to culture. Across many parts of Southeast Asia, for example, the local coffee is served over sweetened condensed milk.

Coffee To Go

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A Maya woman roasts cacao beans grown on her family’s farm in southern Belize. The family traditionally drinks cacao unsweetened but flavored with allspice.

The Great Chocolate Migration

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King Ama Nune Benu of Boti sits on his porch, making a bag from fibers grown around him in the forests of West Timor, Indonesia.

Airplane Food

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For many centuries, bison was served as a primary meat source for Native populations, including the Blackfeet tribe in present-day Montana.

Meat Culture

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Health in a Rwandan Hospital Garden

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Food Is Health

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