“Fossil scout” Pedro Boshoff inside the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, where Homo naledi fossils were found....
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Photograph of Bronislaw Malinowski, circa 1920, shortly after his return to England from his first major ethnographic...
Students from the author’s class on death and dying explore Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. /...
Samadhi Mandir of Srila Prabhupada (back side) at ISKCON, Mayapur, West Bengal, India / Photo by Joydeep,...
Posing for that iconic photograph / Karl Reif, Creative Commons By Rob Horning / 12.20.2016 The authentic...
Model Aliyyah Abdul-Raul wearing designs from Ohio-based designer Chimiwear poses in front of the camara at a...
Bessie Black Horn created the Many Hands shirt around 1910 to commemorate the “multiple handshakes” that her...
Andean folktales—such as those recounting deals made with merpeople in watery underworlds—are not as innocuous as one...
To Hopi traditionalists—Hopis who practice traditional culture—the humble one-seed juniper tree has deep cultural meaning. / Photo...
At the Modern Filial Piety Culture Museum in Qionglai, southwest China, February 2015. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty By Dr....
By Mike Larcombe / 10.31.2017 Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len About 10 years ago, I came across the...
The team of donkeys walks past the mud mosque laden with with their heavy items of transport....
Maddox and his brother in their apartment in Lowell, Massachusetts. / Photo by Heidi Shin By Heidi Shin...
At the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. Photo by Allegro-Takahi/Flickr By Dr. Tiffany Jenkins / 03.18.2016 Sociologist and...
Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer, and be...
Portrait of two Ainu men from Sakhalin, photo by Bronislaw Pilsudski / National Museum of Natural History,...
Tiny samples taken from ancient European skulls, in a process shown here, yielded enough DNA for researchers...
By Kiva Bottero / 11.06.2017 All we could do was smile at each other. My host family,...
By Raya Bidshahri / 11.08.2017 The Underestimated Role of Collectivity Many of us intuitively think about intelligence...
Sailors aboard the USS Lexington celebrate crossing the equator with an elaborate hazing ritual, 5 April 1944....
Afghan refugee Maimuna, photographed in Kabul in 2016. Photo by Hedayatullah Amid/Epa/REX By Wendy Orent / 11.08.2017 Anthropologist...
Jamie Thomas, AB ’06, studies zombies, language, race and othering at Swarthmore College. Photo by Jennifer Weisbord...
Brazil’s jailhouse preachers may not explicitly condone violence against people of other faiths, but they’ve remained largely...
Photo by Anna_Pustynnikova 11.02.2017 Everyone has a favorite sandwich, often prepared to an exacting degree of specification: Turkey...
Photo by Jonathan Cardy / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Signe Howell Professor Emerita of Anthropology University of...
The Fukushima disaster exposed fissures in Japanese society that its familial politics tries to paper over. ...
Creative Commons By Dr. Katherine W. Phillips / 09.18.2017 Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics Management...
The original ‘Blade Runner’ took place in a dreary, dystopian Los Angeles in 2019. Warner Bros. By Dr....
Credit: Alborzshawn, Flickr Creative Commons A new study finds that having a reputation for cooperation may be...
Traditional Piaroa village The arrogance of cosmic deceit, and the humility of everyday life. By Dr. Joanna...