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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The Cookout (and All Other Manners of Heavenly Black Things)
An anthropologist's poem crafts a dream of freedom, peace, and joyous celebration for Black folks who have died as a result of anti-Black and anti-queer violence.
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The Public Problem With Counterterrorism
Ethnographic research with people who have survived terrorist attacks and with those who protect the public reveals how little these two groups understand each other.
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The Dead Must Be Counted
An unknown number of people who die from COVID-19, like migrants who die during perilous journeys, are left out of governments' official death counts.
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Being Clear-Eyed About Citizen Science in the Age of COVID-19
An anthropologist explores the network of citizen monitoring capabilities that developed after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 for what they might teach all of us about such strategies for the covonavirus pandemic.
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Haitian Deportees Face an Unconscionable Crisis During the Pandemic
For Haitian nationals who are being deported from the U.S. amid the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustices and health inequities run deep, to tragic effect.