#anthropology

#anthropology

Castaing-Taylor and Paravel's work challenges the conventions of documentary filmmaking, immersing audiences in raw, sensory experiences that resist coherence and embrace ambiguity.

Huston Smith discusses the family as a vital institution during Cold War tensions and technological change, interviewing Margaret Mead and Bertram Beck for their insights.

If all of humanity suddenly lost the ability to have children, the world would not end overnight. Instead, the world's population would gradually shrink as older generations die.

Hicks defines militarist-realism as a corporate-militarist imperialism, reflecting on the colonialist narratives embedded within museum collections and public monuments.

The interaction we have had made every week exciting; you engaged with my arguments, sometimes with vigorous pushback, making me a better writer.

Oddly echoing persistent allegations that telecommunications systems made by Chinese company Huawei are used to spy on other governments, in 1865 China's leaders rejected a foreign government's attempt to install an electric telegraph.

'It looked like a dry lake bed to me, nothing else, but at night it was a different story.'

Gananath Obeyesekere, an anthropologist whose insights drew on Hindu texts, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Christian mysticism, was a leading intellectual figure in Sri Lanka and Western academia.

Graeber argues that the commonly held belief that money arose from barter is fundamentally flawed; instead, credit systems were established first, facilitated by governing authorities.