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Uncovering an Archaeology of U.S. Empire in Panama

An anthropologist investigates how archaeology helped the U.S. colonize the Panama Canal Zone—just as the current U.S. government threatens to…

How Societies Morph With the Seasons

An evolutionary anthropologist details seasonal changes among foraging communities—and distills how the fixed political structures of industrialized societies are an…

Reclaiming Collective Life in a Fractured U.S.

After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out across the U.S. to understand the nation’s deepening divides.…

A Venezuelan Election … in Chile

Unable to vote in her home country, a Venezuelan immigrant in Chile decides to organize her own mock election. In…

Tallahassee Ghazal

Using an ancient Arabic poetic form, a poet-archaeologist from Florida cycles through feelings of entrapment growing up queer in the…

David Graeber’s Lasting Influence on Anthropology and Activism

When activist and anthropologist Graeber died unexpectedly in 2020, scholars gathered to mourn him. Contributors to a resulting volume, As…

A Spacecraft’s Dance From French Guiana to Jupiter

As the European Space Agency launches its flagship mission to explore Jupiter’s moons, an anthropologist explores the gap between launch…

An Order for My Backpack and Three Stages of Nowhere

A poet moves through rituals of silence and erasure that permeate the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. “An…

My Errant Uterus

In a time of heightened threats to reproductive rights, a women’s health scholar and mother of two comes face to…

Unwrapping Operation Christmas Drop

An anthropologist takes a critical eye to a long-running holiday tradition: a U.S. military mission that drops toys and supplies…