Trump and the Echo of Amache
Donald Trump’s disturbing anti-Muslim rhetoric echoes an ugly chapter in U.S. history: the time leading up to the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Reflections
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The Dangers of Birth in Tanzania
East Africa’s largest country has made great strides in reducing its maternal death rate, but many obstacles remain.
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A Weak Commission Brought Forth Survivors’ Truths, but Has It Made Reconciliation Possible?
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada gave voice to the violence committed in Indian residential schools. Unfortunately, it failed to fully achieve either healing or justice among many of those involved.
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The World Hates Fat People
Being overweight is stigmatized in most countries around the world. But does obsessive talk about excess fat lead to weight reduction—or to cruel, useless shaming?
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How Twin Culture Challenges Our Notions of Self
Researchers have long viewed identical twins as mutants, oddballs, and freaks. Bothered by a biased scientific literature, two anthropologists who are also identical twins conduct their own twin ethnographic research.
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Rubber Barons’ Abuses Live On in Memory and Myth
Indigenous South Americans who lived during the rubber era weave fact and myth to pass down their collective memories as both witnesses and survivors.