Civilizations rose to remarkable heights of density and urbanization, yet they did so within limits that could...
Anthropology
Anthropology examines humanity across time by bringing living cultures into conversation with the archaeological past. Its evidence challenges familiar assumptions about what people share and how societies become different.
Birth rates in the medieval world illuminate the precarious balance of life before modern medicine. Fertility was...
Divisions of labor are found across all human societies. By Dr. Vivek V. VenkataramanAssistant Professor of AnthropologyUniversity...
Questions and beliefs related to our origins extend back to the earliest members of our species. What...
It is a cultural practice fundamentally driven by a care for the common good. Introduction In the...
Understanding the evolutionary roots of age-based changes in social focus. Introduction There are many changes that can...
Exploring a range of cultural celebrations around the world to mark the new year. Introduction Across human...
Introduction While many of us feel comfortable in the bubble we surround ourselves with on a daily...
‘Census’ is a Latin word, and the modern notion of a state counting the population is a...
A shrinking global population may hurt us in ways that we typically pay little attention to. By...
Fewer people are good for the climate, but the economic consequences are severe. Introduction Birthrates are falling...
Ten years from now, the U.S. population will have almost 350 million people. Introduction The U.S. has...
Communicating feelings or exhibiting social niceties with flowers has been in practice since the ancient times. Even...
For a lot of people some of their best memories, or favorite traditions include the food that...
Sustaining indigenous communities while experiencing another culture and another way of being. By David TuckerTour Guide in...
Guidance on when it is sharing another culture out of appreciation and when it is appropriation. By...
The study of Indigenous People can create a respectful and rigorous understanding of their culture. Some classes...
No evidence supports the existence of haunted houses, but in a largely secular society, an increasing number...
Many cultures around the world celebrate death as part of life, though we often contain death within...
The shrinking of human heads was originally only practised by the Shuar people to trap the souls...
When you’re displaced, your home is taken from you. How can you begin to form your identity?...
A native residence in the suburbs of Manila, 1899 / Wikimedia Commons Nativism in postcolonial theory comprises...
Javier Zarracina/Vox Subjective experiences, compelling storytelling, and tenacity of conviction do not alone make an idea worthwhile. By...
Research shows that a people’s knowledge of their family history correlates to higher self-esteem, lower anxiety, stronger familial cohesion,...
To an anthropologist, it means the patterns of human behaviour, and all that that entails. 01.01.2018 Introduction The...
Wikimedia Commons Convention and personal interest compelled Caesar to tum his hand to ethnography. By Dr. B.M....
By Dr. Barbara Watson Andaya Professor, Asian Studies Program University of Hawaii at Manoa Introduction Southeast Asia...
Federated States of Micronesia. The Yap Islands can be found in the far western portion of the...
The Café Griensteidl in Vienna, watercolour by Reinhold Voelkel, 1896. / Getty Images The idea of a...
An exorcism being performed in Fafe, Portugal. Jose Manuel Ribeiro/Reuters The belief in demonic possession – often thought to be...