What’s Left Unsaid When a Language Dies
Deep in Papua New Guinea, the speakers of Tayap have stopped using their native tongue. In A Death in the Rainforest, an anthropologist recounts his journey over three decades to find out why.
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Imagining the Neanderthal’s World
In Kindred, an archaeologist urges readers to rethink a long-maligned member of humanity’s family tree.
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The Anthropologists Who Undid Sex, Race, and Gender
In Gods of the Upper Air, a biographer reveals how anthropologist Franz Boas and his students helped transform how human differences and similarities are perceived.
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“The Anthropologist” Isn’t Another Climate Change Horror Flick
An evocative new film brings the realities of climate change out of Hollywood and into the intimacy of our everyday lives.
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Out! “Curb” or “Truck”?
A new study of Milwaukee’s urban poor uncovers the complex and often tragic relationships between landlords and tenants.