Anthropology’s Top Findings of 2017
For the field that studies everything human, the past year has been one of great upheaval and radical revelations.
Anthropology’s Top Findings of 2017
Culture
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Why Do We Wrap Presents?
Wrapping paper is a striptease that hides and reveals, transforming otherwise ordinary objects into gifts.
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The Shameful Persistence of White Supremacy in the United States
This loathsome worldview continues to have an outsize impact on U.S. culture. Can Black Lives Matter and other progressive movements do anything about it?
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Natural Disasters Are Social Disasters
As climate change makes some hurricanes more intense, social inequalities are cast in sharp relief.
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Are Religious People More Moral?
Cultures around the world share the belief that atheists lack morality. The evidence, however, tells a different story.
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When Ex-convicts Become Criminologists
Through their own hard-earned insights, prisoners turned academics aim to reform how convicts and criminology are studied.