In the midst of acute eco-anxiety, can community-based filmmaking help young people imagine a different future? FILMMAKING IN THE ANTHROPOCENE…
What Ancient Goat Teeth Reveal About Animal CareUnraveling a mystery around millennia-old goat bones, an archaeologist reflects on the harm people can cause their most cherished animals.…
How Eugenics Shaped the U.S. Prenatal Care SystemBlack women in the U.S. are far more likely to die from complications related to pregnancy and birth than White…
The HeavinessA multidisciplinary poet-scholar and suicide attempt and multi-suicide loss survivor unveils complex anthropological threads that shape suicidal ideation. ✽ Worldwide,…
A Love Letter to the Munay-KiA poet exuberantly gives thanks for the Munay-Ki rites enlivened across the ages and shared by the Q’ero people in…
The Psychedelics Industry Is Booming—but Who’s Being Left Out?Three researchers discuss the possibilities and problems arising as psychedelic plant medicines, held sacred by many Indigenous communities, move into…
Neighborliness Matters to Your HealthDrawing from cross-cultural research, an anthropologist shows how neighborliness can lessen wealth-based health disparities. DOES GOOD HEALTH REQUIRE WEALTH? The…
Slow Death by VolcanoA biocultural anthropologist shares new research on the surprising long-term hazards of volcanoes in Iceland—and how to address them. THE…
What a Cow’s Horn Reveals About Khoisan MedicineAn archaeologist explains what a 500-year-old horn container found in South Africa illuminates about precolonial Khoisan medical and spiritual knowledges.…
A Native Alaska Community’s Reckoning With Vaccine HesitancyAn anthropologist’s research with Tlingit communities in Alaska shows they have good reasons to be skeptical about vaccines. They know…
