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.
Anthropologist Hugh Gusterson traces the history of combat casualties attempting to communicate beyond death, from Gallipoli to nuclear war.
Why We Must Talk About RaceAn anthropologist from urban Los Angeles looks at how science, history, religion, power, and politics colluded to create the illusion of race.
Making Love—and NationsWhy was love across ethnic boundaries in colonial nations so dangerous? For one thing, it threatened to wrench nations apart because it risked binding them together.
The Darkest TruthsAfter the Nazis’ three so-called Operation Reinhard camps swallowed more than a million and a half Jewish lives, the camps were themselves destroyed. Forensic archaeologists are finally exploring what lies beneath the earth—but not without resistance.
Past ImperfectGenetics can offer scientific answers to questions about biological relationships, but archaeology provides deep insight into people’s cultural lives.
Conflict on the PlainsAn archaeologist’s photographic montages evoke the struggles of Plains Indian tribes in the 19th century and honor the sacred power of forgotten historical places.
