For the anthropologist John Borneman, writing in the “ethnographic present” means more than just a verb tense. Too often, he says, ethnographies lose the immediacy of encounter “before the mass of ...

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The anthropologist explained that there were so many accounts of Igbo origin that were yet to be proved, revealing that they ...

When the 150-pound anaconda burst upward from the river, nearly seizing him by the head, Napoleon A. Chagnon wasn’t fearful—he was furious. The famous anthropologist grabbed his double-barreled ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — During her nearly quarter-century living in one of the most remote places on earth, Nancy Sullivan explored crocodile-infested rivers, endured numerous bouts of malaria and ...

In “Our Language in Your Hands,” a series of three programs being aired on BBC radio, Yale anthropologist and linguist Mark Turin conducts a tour of endangered languages in three very different ...

A vocal ally of sex workers has written a lengthy essay that, among other things, criticizes the media for reinforcing clichés about this business. Anthropologist Laura Agustin, author of Sex at the ...

ANTHROPOLOGIST PLEADS FOR FEWER HUMANS, MORE SAVED SPECIES COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ask Jeffrey McKee whether the planet would be a better place without humans and he'll qualify his answer: "It certainly ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about emerging employment structures, policy and law. An Anthropologist on Mars is the title of Oliver Sacks’ 1993 ...

“I’ve always been a big fan and viewer of Hindi cinema as a child,” Bollywood anthropologist Tejaswini Ganti recently told Indiewire. We should note that “Bollywood” is a name for the contemporary ...