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Stories about anthropology

Can Archaeologists 'Pass the Spade' to Locals to Manage Cultural Heritage?

Allison Mickel is studying two startup nonprofits aiming to build local capacity to document, conserve, protect and make decisions about the future of Jordan’s archaeological sites.

Allison Mickel Examines the Limiting Labor Practices of Modern Archaeological Excavations

Mickel explores the notion that the exclusively manual work that local site workers do not only exploits them in terms of labor conditions, but also puts them at risk of job loss if they exhibit their work as intellectual or scientific labor.

Sustainable Trade? New study by Mark Noble Links Chocolate Production to Loss of Forests

Study finds that the higher the concentration of cocoa exports, the more elevated the rates of deforestation.

Study Reveals Untapped Creativity in U.S. Workforce

Arts alumni take differing views of the applicability of creativity to non-arts jobs, researchers find.

Expressing Depression

Sirry Alang explores discrepancies between the standard approach to diagnosing depression and how African Americans perceive the illness.

From Holocene to Anthropocene

If we rename our epoch, will it prod us to acknowledge our impact on the planet?

Did the Gaels “tame” the Vikings?

Archaeologists fight the clock to solve a 1,300-year-old riddle.

The Changing Face of Marriage in Mali

Polygyny, a seemingly outdated vestige of rural life, has evolved into an institution compatible with modern living in urban Mali. Bruce Whitehouse examines how marriage is understood and practiced in West Africa—and the potential consequences of its changing meaning.