What Does Baseball’s Bilingualism Reveal?
A linguistic anthropologist who is also a baseball aficionado reflects on what can be learned from how language mashups play out on and off the baseball diamond.
Language
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When Deafness Is Not Considered a Deficit
In the Peruvian Amazon, the Maijuna peoples created their own sign language—which hints at the importance of community in the evolution of language.
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One
An anthropological poem journeys to the eye of the storm to understand how “race” has no biological basis—and is instead rooted in discrimination. What future for our species?
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Siege
A Black anthropologist's poem speaks to anti-Blackness, white supremacy, police brutality and murder, and trans/queer hate and violence.
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Why “We” Isn’t for Everyone
Just when authors think they’re including everyone, they might be leaving someone important out.
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What Is Anthropology?
The broad field of anthropology studies “all things human” in ways that stand apart from sociology, psychology, history, and other areas of the humanities and sciences.