An archaeologist weighs the pros and cons driving debates around the rising population of Scotland’s renowned animal and explains what…
What Ancient Goat Teeth Reveal About Animal CareUnraveling a mystery around millennia-old goat bones, an archaeologist reflects on the harm people can cause their most cherished animals.…
Bringing Nhakpoti, the Kayapó Story of Star Girl, to the ScreenOver years and across long distances, an international filmmaking team collaborated to bring to life the origin story of how…
Imagining Other Worlds at the India-Pakistan BorderFor decades, soldiers at the border between Attari, India, and Wagah, Pakistan, have staged an elaborate ceremony for onlookers. An…
What Pots Say—and Don’t Say—About PeopleArchaeologists long abandoned the simple notion that “pots are people”—that people’s identities directly correspond with the pottery they made and…
What Spider Games Say About ArachnophobiaMany people around the world fear spiders. But in the Philippines, the tradition of spider wrestling often brings people and…
Do Washing Machines Belong in Kitchens? Many Brits Say “Yes.”An anthropologist moves from Canada to the U.K. and finds herself reflecting on what home design patterns reveal about a…
A Love Letter to the Munay-KiA poet exuberantly gives thanks for the Munay-Ki rites enlivened across the ages and shared by the Q’ero people in…
Why I Ask My Students to Swear in ClassAn anthropologist uses explicit insults to get students thinking about gender and power in everyday language. Plus, a brief explainer…
Twitter’s Blue Tick Is a Fake SignalEvolutionary theory can help us better understand the recent debacle about social media platforms’ popular symbol as a signaling problem.…
