anthropology

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

Webb Keane on the Anthropology Behind Our Relationship With Artificial Intelligence

 
By Webb Keane  February 7, 2025
Drugs

A Struggle for Survival: Inside Mexico City’s Illegal Detox Centers

By Angela Garcia  May 2, 2024
Cultural History

How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

By Adam Kuper  April 17, 2024
Early Humans

How the Neolithic Age Marked the Beginning of the Modern World

By John Charles Chasteen  December 4, 2023
Archeology

Material World: What Prehistoric Possessions Tell Us About Ourselves

By Chip Colwell  November 28, 2023
Forensics

In Argentina, How the Bones of the Dead Communicate With the Living

By Alexa Hagerty  March 16, 2023
Death

Dealing with the Dead in Japan: On Cleaning Up After the Departed

By Anne Allison  March 10, 2023
Anthropology

What Rituals Across Cultures Reveal About the Human Condition

By Dimitris Xygalatas  September 14, 2022
Colonialism

How a Mundane Anthropologist and Bureaucrat Helped Contribute to American Settler Colonialism

By Alicia Puglionesi  April 14, 2022
Art History

On the Birth of the Art Instinct

By John-Paul Stonard  December 8, 2021
Anthropology

The Dawn of Everything Is Not a Book About the Origins of Inequality

By David Graeber and David Wengrow  November 12, 2021
Climate Crisis

Climate Change is Here… So How Do We Adapt?

By Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani  September 24, 2021
Evolution

How Humans Have (Unintentionally) Influenced the Evolution of Wild Animals and the Environment

By Emma Marris  July 1, 2021
Parenting

Modern Parents Could Learn a Lot From Hunter-Gatherer Families

By Michaeleen Doucleff  March 8, 2021
Anthropology

Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?

By Guy Crosby  December 17, 2019
Archaeology

What If We Called It the ‘Flax Age’ Instead of the ‘Iron Age’?

By Kassia St. Clair  November 19, 2019
The Internet

The Inbox: A Scattered, Ad-Ridden Archive of Our Lives

By Randy Malamud  October 9, 2019
Excerpts

Deep Time and an Uncertain Futureon the Orkney Islands

By Laura Watts  March 25, 2019
Self-Care

The World is Wrecking Our Hearing and We’re Letting It

By Mack Hagood  March 19, 2019
Essay

Death and Dying in the Canadian Arctic

By Justin Nobel  June 21, 2018
Deep Dive

The Evolution of Sex Writing

By Amanda Arnold  January 6, 2017
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