How we memorialize significant events says a lot about our perception of time.

Whether across the expanse of thousands of years or alongside a river, the hand wave is a gesture that holds social meaning. But has it always been used as a positive greeting?

Vandalism can be a form of resistance to oppression. But is that the case when a privileged artist mars our public lands?

An unusual container produced by the Moche civilization of Peru raises many questions about their society—and our own views of sex.

An unorthodox blend of anthropology and poetry is cultivating reunion and reconciliation among people and cultures that have been estranged for decades.

When it came to carving the likeness of the immortal Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the world’s most valuable sapphire, there was no room for error.

Humans are symbolic animals who create meaning from things. An eccentric movement to craft birdhouses into personal memorials has arisen spontaneously in central Florida.