Anthropology

When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farm...

An authentic picture of culture among young adults of colour

Announcements in the 1970s and 1980s of the death of kinship and descent as subjects of anthropological study were highly premature. These subjects...

Vigilantes and lynch mobs not only usurped the authority of the law, they shaped the histories of their actions

In a series of essays readers will find information about modern scholarship on the subject of chivalry and various suggestions for ways to teach s...

Greene's fine sense of humor is displayed in this warm and far-reaching comic novel,Travels with My Aunt, a bestseller when it appeared originally....

Theological anthropology is being put to the test: in the face of contemporary developments in the spheres of culture, politics, and science, tradi...

Is anyone listening to minority voices in reforming schools?

Unearthing the writings of African American Communists and the forgotten promise of radical politics through primary sources

Is anyone listening to minority voices in reforming schools?

Arequipa, Peru’s second largest city, has the most intense regional culture in the central Andes. Arequipeños fiercely conceive of themselves as ex...

What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring it...

What is “brown” in—and beyond—the context of American identity politics? How has the concept changed since 9/11? In the most sustained examination ...

Though often associated with foreigners and refugees, many Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the foundin...

Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from his...

This text aims to capture the spirit of the American wilderness and its people, in the early 20th century. These youthful tales also include import...

Within the last three decades, foraging theory has established itself as a major cornerstone for both archaeological and ethnographic hunter-gather...

An ethnographic study of urban professionals in post-Mao China as they balance social responsibility and individual achievement

Reaching all the way back to the classical and medieval past, Teaching the Commons chronicles ideas and resulting policies that have shaped contemp...

In these two remarkable works, a brilliant, vain, long-suffering Frenchman describes the first twenty years of his life and their culmination in a...