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Ways of Eating: An Interview with Benjamin Wurgaft and Merry (Corky) White, Part 2

by Rose Facchini

Ways of Eating: An Interview with Benjamin Wurgaft and Merry (Corky) White, Part 1

by Rose Facchini

The Concepts that Made Prehistory: An Interview with Stefanos Geroulanos

by Benjamin Diehl

Empire of Abstraction: British Social Anthropology in the “Dependencies”

by guest contributor Nile A. Davies

Catalogue Now!: Professional Anthropology and Making the Northeast United States

By guest contributor Morgan L. Green Mid-twentieth-century anthropology was in crisis. Already influenced by World War II, anthropologists in the 1960s encountered a variety of dramatic changes. The scientific method and the pressure to be “objective” dominated as institutions like the National… Continue Reading →

Anthropologia

By guest contributor Trish Ross For the full companion article, see this Winter’s edition of the Journal of the History of Ideas. “Human nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.” Thus David Hume simultaneously… Continue Reading →

Paris’s New Musée de l’Homme: Then, Now, Tomorrow

by guest contributor Anna Toledano Autobiography is an art form that only few have mastered. The newly reopened permanent exhibition at the Musée de l’Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris does a remarkable job of writing the book on our… Continue Reading →

Reflection without Retreat: Brooke Palmieri interviews Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft on “Thinking in Public” and the role intellectuals play in politics.

Interview conducted by contributing editor Brooke Palmieri The longer you stare at the words “public intellectual” the harder they are to decipher. They imply the application of thought to everyday life, they imply that the “intellectual” has something of value… Continue Reading →

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