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.
People often find it difficult to dispose of everyday objects after a loved one’s death. Similar feelings may explain items buried in the walls of Iron Age homes.
Brotherhood and Anti-Blackness in College FootballAs another college football season begins, an anthropologist explores how Black athletes navigate racism by caring for one another on and off the gridiron.
Rethinking Masculinity: Fathers as CaregiversAn anthropologist explores whether the qualities fathers acquire though caregiving shifts their understandings of manhood.
EthiopiaA poet-anthropologist from Nigeria recollects the symbolic power of Ethiopia in the time before his country’s independence from Britain in 1960.
What Makes Injections Hard to Swallow?An anthropological assessment of the differences between pills and injections may shed some light on vaccine hesitancy.
Unlikely BlessingsWhen the unthinkable happens, how do we even speak? A poet-anthropologist finds a way through a poem written during his infant son’s chemotherapy treatments, caught in the haunting terrain between hope and despair.
Death as Something We MakeAn anthropologist dives deeply into how “medical aid-in-dying” is transforming the ethics and aesthetics of death.
Love Poem for the Shape of the FieldAnthropologist-poet Nomi Stone reflects on the scope of a social scientist’s gaze—and unfurls a startling insight.
Does Love Always Come Before Marriage?Arranged marriages and love marriages are sometimes seen as cultural opposites, but it’s far more complicated. Anthropology shows how love and marriage are entwined in many different ways.
Is the Pandemic Slowing Down Love?Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and the chief scientific adviser for Match.com, sheds light on how COVID-19 has been affecting the search for love online.
