How People Actually Use Their Smartphones
Smartphones have become ubiquitous—but do we really know how people around the world are using these devices? A team of anthropologists collaborated with a comics artist to share their findings.
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Allying With Parasites to Fight Industrial Oil Palm
In West Papua, industrial oil palm plantations threaten Marind people’s ways of life. Some in the community find solidarity with resilient parasite species—beetles, rats, fungi, and many more—that attack oil palm trees from within. -
Can Anthropology Help Heal Puerto Rico’s Diabetes Crisis?
Anthropological studies show the potential impact of community care and creative policies in improving health care in Puerto Rico.
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Chasing the Myths of Mexico’s “Superrunners”
The Rarámuri people’s ancient traditions of footracing have captured global attention. New research by a biological anthropologist and his colleagues debunks stereotypes and contextualizes the community’s famous races.
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A Letter From COVID-19
An anthropologist imagines COVID-19 as a wise representative of Earth who is sharing a vital message with humans.
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Unlikely Blessings
When 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.