Do Twins Share a Soul?
An anthropologist—and identical twin—grapples with different cultural understandings of twinship.
Identity
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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.
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What Rez Dogs Mean to the Lakota
Dogs on Native American reservations can be dangerous, but they have a long history and traditional role in many Indigenous communities. Remembering that is key to avoiding future violence.
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The Cookout (and All Other Manners of Heavenly Black Things)
An anthropologist's poem crafts a dream of freedom, peace, and joyous celebration for Black folks who have died as a result of anti-Black and anti-queer violence.
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The Travesties of India’s Tribal Boarding Schools
Two researchers argue that India’s large-scale tribal boarding schools revive features of 19th- and 20th-century boarding schools in North America and elsewhere that sought to strip Indigenous peoples of their families, languages, and cultural identities.