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Jul 27, 2021
Chasing the Myths of Mexico’s “Superrunners”
The Rarámuri people’s ancient traditions of footracing…
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Jul 16, 2021
How Apes Reveal Human History
Great apes provide a window into the story of human evolution — and…
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Jun 21, 2021
How Museums Can Do More Than Just Repatriate Objects
It is beautiful when museums go beyond returning…
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Jun 15, 2021
What Makes Injections Hard to Swallow?
An anthropological assessment of the differences between pills…
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May 27, 2021
Finding and Losing the World’s Oldest Art in Sulawesi
An anthropologist goes back to see Sulawesi cave…
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May 25, 2021
Can Social Scientists Help Control Epidemics?
New collaborative efforts, such as the Social Science in…
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May 13, 2021
How Cellphones Make and Break Human Connections
An ethnographic study of U.S. high schoolers…
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Apr 23, 2021
How Scientific Taxonomy Constructed the Myth of Race
Botanist Carl Linnaeus’ classification system has…
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Apr 5, 2021
When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows
A study finds that there may be health…
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Feb 9, 2021
Do Twins Share a Soul?
An anthropologist — and identical twin — grapples with different cultural…
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