Living With the Prospect of Assisted Dying
In a culture that valorizes battling for life until the very end, a man diagnosed with ALS grapples with what it means to stop fighting.
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Indigenous Mapmaking, or Bringing a Dead Map to Life
In a new book, an anthropologist explores how oil palm plantations in West Papua are upending Indigenous Marind communities' ways of life. In this excerpt, Marind villagers call upon their plant and animal kin to confront a map used by the oil palm industry.
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Busting Myths About Sex and Gender
In a newly revised book, an anthropologist dismantles harmful untruths about society, including notions about the nature of differences between men and women.
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Haunted by a Secret War
In a new book of ethnographic fiction on the lingering effects of the United States’ Secret War in Laos, the living must find ways to pacify the ghosts of those who suffered past violence.
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Requiem for a War Robot
An anthropologist explores the brave new world of virtual warfare—and the fraught relationship between humans and machines.
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A Genetic Chronicle of the First Peoples in the Americas
In a new book, an anthropological geneticist writes a 36,000-year history of how and why ancient peoples migrated into North and South America and made the continents their home.