Anthropology

I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels...

I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels...

The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pu...

The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older ...

The Neolithic ('New Stone Age') marks the time when the prehistoric communities of Europe turned their backs on the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that ...

We have all found ourselves involuntarily addressing inanimate objects as though they were human. For a fleeting instant, we act as though our cars...

There are seven life processes identified in anthroposophical human physiology which affect physical organ function and life forces: breathing, pro...

Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete form...

How did the dog become mans best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the his...

While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this ...

An exploration of how ordinary U.S. Christians create global connections through the multibillion-dollar child sponsorship industryChild sponsorshi...