What Makes Vaccines Social?
Some people are wary of or may refuse vaccines. Social scientists are part of a movement to encourage self-empowerment to end the current pandemic.
Culture
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What a “Safe and Dignified” Burial Means During a Pandemic
When public health protocols disrupt normal funeral and mourning practices, such as in Cameroon, alternative approaches need to be engaged to keep people safe while respecting the dead and their loved ones.
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Do Twins Share a Soul?
An anthropologist—and identical twin—grapples with different cultural understandings of twinship.
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Finding Calm—and Connection—in Coffee Rituals
During the pandemic, an anthropologist finds new meaning in the everyday ritual of preparing and drinking coffee.
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Partnering With Nonhumans for Climate Action
Geoengineering plans to save Arctic ice tend to treat technology as a means for asserting human control over the environment. Instead, we should develop human-nonhuman partnerships to tackle climate change.
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Without Norms, Societies Fall Apart
Written rules about how to govern only work if they are backed up by unwritten values shared across the political spectrum. Over the past four years, Donald Trump’s relentless attacks on U.S. democratic norms have taken a toll.