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.
Monarch butterflies’ epic annual migration from North America to Mexico inspires an anthropologist to reflect on this insect’s precarious life…
Hunting Down the Facts About Paleo DietsAn evolutionary anthropologist argues that Paleolithic diets were much more varied than people think based on his research with the…
The Aztec Antichrist Chronicles Indigenous Resistance and Religious ConversionAn exceedingly rare notebook from 16th-century Mexico contains plays about the Antichrist told by the Aztecs’ descendants. An anthropologist recounts…
Aztec Antichrist: A Performance of the ApocalypseA 16th-century play written by the descendants of the Aztecs after the Spanish conquest dramatically reveals Indigenous people’s responses to…
How Can Societies Decolonize Conservation?Two archaeologists reflect on how social hierarchies harm biodiversity and how to move away from conservation efforts based on colonialist…
Unsung Native Collaborators in AnthropologyAnthropologists such as Franz Boas and Margaret Mead could not have achieved success without their local assistants’ insider knowledge and…
Why AI Will Never Fully Capture Human LanguageResearchers in artificial intelligence have made extraordinary strides in mimicking human language—but they still can’t capture the parts that truly…
Why Indigenous Fire Management WorksThree researchers use a study of the cypress pine in Arnhem Land, Australia, to explain why large-scale, institutional fire management…
Derogatory Place Names Need Indigenous RevisionChanging offensive place names on public lands is a strong move toward decolonization. But to heal relationships and address ecological…
Maize and OkraA poet-anthropologist recollects when Muscogee (Creek) people offered his formerly enslaved ancestors refuge, extending the bonds of kinship.
