When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows
A study finds that there may be health benefits when family ties are linked through mothers and women head households.
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How to “Co-Live” With a Natural Hazard
The ways in which Andean villagers have adapted to a neighboring volcano could offer lessons to other communities in reframing risks and responding to disasters.
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Bridging the American Cultural Divide
As Americans stand on the footbridge to the future, an anthropologist advises people to take a deep breath, seek wisdom from their elders, and be patient for cultural change.
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Do Twins Share a Soul?
An anthropologist—and identical twin—grapples with different cultural understandings of twinship.
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Partnering With Nonhumans for Climate Action
Geoengineering plans to save Arctic ice tend to treat technology as a means for asserting human control over the environment. Instead, we should develop human-nonhuman partnerships to tackle climate change.
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Facing COVID-19 as an Undocumented Essential Worker
The pandemic has made visible the vulnerabilities that many undocumented immigrants in the U.S. face on a daily basis.