While the magazine has closed, its living archive endures—open to all and preserving the many ideas, voices, and discoveries that deepen our understanding of what it means to be human.
A Kashmiri poet-anthropologist records the restless despair many feel under Indian occupation. If you missed the introduction to “Earlier I…
This MilitarizationA poet-anthropologist conveys her life when she was coming of age under the increasing mobilization of military forces in Indian-occupied…
Sex, Lies, and Science WarsThe Mead-Freeman controversy reaches its climax. Scientists, scholars, and Samoans debate the nature of sexuality, culture, and truth. After anthropologist…
Into the LightChristianity and colonization deeply reshaped Samoan culture starting in the 1830s, complicating how anthropologists Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman saw…
We Need to Tell Our Own StoriesIn the controversies swirling around Margaret Mead’s work in American Samoa, one set of voices has too often been left…
Flapper of the South SeasA young anthropologist named Margaret Mead journeyed to American Samoa in 1925 and claimed she found a culture where teenagers…
Coming of Age … TodayDoes the transition from childhood to adulthood have to be so difficult? This question sent famed anthropologist Margaret Mead to…
The Problems With Coming of AgeA famed anthropologist’s controversial research in American Samoa reveals the biggest questions about growing up and being human. This special…
Raising My Children in an Ableist WorldIn a new book, an anthropologist and father of three, including a daughter with Down syndrome, reflects on the pressures…
What Spider Games Say About ArachnophobiaMany people around the world fear spiders. But in the Philippines, the tradition of spider wrestling often brings people and…
