medical anthropology; environmental anthropology; science and technology studies; anthropology of life and death; anthropology of war I am a critical feminist ethnographer with an interest in the ...

When paleoanthropologists finally freed the skeleton called Little Foot from its stone prison in South Africa, they believed they were meeting an old acquaintance. Instead, they may have uncovered a ...

Researchers from UC Santa Cruz received a subaward on the newly announced National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science, a five-year, $30 million ...

Indians who drifted from their pueblos to Santa Fe last week for their September fiesta and spree found a new building in that capital. Resident Indians, who work as servants and guides, explained ...

Robert Alan LeVine (1932–2023) was one of the founders or an early advocate of psychological anthropology, a social science discipline at the intersection of socio-cultural anthropology, psychology, ...

For several hours on a recent Friday morning, a Yale laboratory became a Bronze Age brewery. Inside the lab, in the Yale Chemistry Research Building, a group of students attempted to recreate beers of ...

Areas of regional expertise include Latin America and the Caribbean, Native America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Tibet and the Himalayas, Papua New Guinea, East Africa, and Europe. Among the topical ...

Forensic anthropologists face mental health risks due to chronic exposure to violent death. Vicarious trauma and burnout can arise even without direct experience of violence.

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...