What Milk-Sharing Communities Reveal
As women in the United States create networks to give or receive breast milk, anthropologists are illuminating the complex social and cultural forces that shape mothers’ choices.
What Milk-Sharing Communities Reveal
Culture
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Can a Robot Guess What You’re Thinking?
Scientists are trying to create artificial intelligence that can think about others’ thoughts. What might this reveal about perspective-taking in AI, humans, and animals?
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Communities Grapple With Exposure to “Forever Chemicals”
Toxic chemicals known as PFAS pollute the water at more than 2,000 sites across the U.S.—and reside in the bodies of most Americans. How do residents cope with contamination?
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Reflecting on the Rise of the Hoteps
An anthropologist looks at a U.S. subculture inspired by ancient Egypt and its effort to foster a particular Black identity.
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Will U.S. University Students Spread COVID-19?
Universities are planning to open across the United States with strategies based on fantasy documents and magical thinking.
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Who Gets to Study Whom?
As the field of anthropology struggles to shed its colonial past, the discipline has inadvertently put constraints on anthropologists of color who already face racism, bias, and discrimination.