Trance states may influence the movements depicted in rock art.
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Two Philadelphia artists – a photographer and a performance poet – combine their shared passion for observing and documenting everyday life in the city.
Going to the office doesn’t have to be a chore. Here’s how:
Some anthropologists question how much rare activities like big-game hunting could have affected how our species evolved. Instead they’re looking at daily activities like carrying water or firewood.
Archaeologists have discovered two 7,000-year-old tiger shark teeth that were once part of ritual or fighting blades on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
A year after two stays several weeks-long in war-torn Ukraine, ethnographer Romain Huet has gone back there. From Kiev to the Donbas, he’s on a quest to understand how the war has changed Ukrainians.
If hunter-gatherers went beyond nose-to-tail eating to include the undigested plant matter in a prey animal’s stomach, assumptions about gendered division of labor start to fall apart.
New research finds societies are much more likely to have supernatural beliefs that concern ‘natural’ phenomena, such as extreme weather events.
From butchers to hawkers, and shelters to miners, this book reveals the informal economy and texture of the city.
Trauma can affect how people remember and describe experiences. Many survivors express their pain through objects and physical symptoms, an anthropologist explains.
An anthropologist explains how years of conflict have made Ukrainians reassess their priorities and relationships.
A scholar of social participation finds shared themes across protests in many states, not all of which fit common popular or media narratives about the events.
Janda stereotypes pervade the lives of the Indonesian women who are marginalised in their community, forcing them to live precarious lives.
A throwaway economy harms more than the natural environment. It also harms our mental environment.
Big data is all the rage in management circles and beyond, yet little is said about the understanding needed with such voluminous data. An important lesson can be learned from ethnographic research.
Opening the minds of worried new parents to other ways of raising children may assuage fears that if they fail to ‘do the right thing,’ their children will be doomed.
How can we understand each other, especially when stereotypes cloud our view? An ethnographic movie captures a sense of the ‘other’ in an encounter between Maasai villagers and Dutch tourists.
Even though they don’t consistently have a roof over their heads, the homeless do their best to create a routine, form communities and make a home – just like the rest of society.
Hot-desking tends to affect different employees differently – it tends to produce winners and losers.
His landmark contributions to anthropology have faded from memory, despite real-world policy impact during the mid-20th century.
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Lecturer, Program in International and Comparative Studies, University of Michigan
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Professor Emerita of Anthropology, African Studies, and Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of English, University of Virginia
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Director of Postgraduate Research, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida
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Professeur en marketing, EM Lyon Business School
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Professeur de marketing, EM Lyon Business School
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Director, Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre, Monash University
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Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
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Affiliate Faculty, Metropolitan State University of Denver
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Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, La Trobe University
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Chair of Biology at Seattle Pacific University and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington
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PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Griffith University
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Project Manager, International Rock Art Collaboration, Rock Art Research Institute, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand