Tags: Anthropology
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Are Savages Noble?
Two new books ask whether our ancestors were right about food, sex, war, and trade.
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The Great Penis Robbery
Stolen valor.
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Jared Diamond, Imperialist?
A human rights worker takes on The World Until Yesterday.
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Years Without a Santa Claus
Puritans, pagans, and Christmas.
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Practical Anarchy
James C. Scott's latest book makes a low-key case for a little bit of anarchism.
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How to Have a Good Idea
A unified theory of fantasy football; Eat, Pray, Love; and Burning Man.
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Today's Depressing Post-Thanksgiving Metaphor
The fate of the pardoned turkeys.
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The Professors and the Tea Parties
Ten scholars try to explain the Tea Party movement.
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Vampires and Cannibals in American History
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Well, You Wonder Why I Always Dress in Black...
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The Facebook Friend in the Plastic Bubble
Are we filtering ourselves to death?
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The Facebook Friend in the Plastic Bubble
Are we filtering ourselves to death?
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An Anthropologist Looks at Bitcoin
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When Anti-Bullying Campaigns Miss the Point
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Between Time and Timbuktoo
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You've Changed, Man
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Their Eyes Were Watching Movies
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Snark Attack
The New Yorker's David Denby campaigns against "low, teasing, snide, condescending" criticism
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In Darkest Indianapolis
A poor midwestern family is demonized by eugenicists and glorified by radicals.
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The Southeast Asian Maroons