A found list is a rare analog window into someone else’s needs—an accidental autobiography, a blank space to be filled with one’s imagination.
anthropology
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Walk In These
“Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them.”
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The Strange Power of Laughter
“An anthropologist explores laughter as a far more complex phenomenon than simple delight—reflecting on its surprising power to disturb and disrupt.”
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Children of the Ice Age
“With the help of new archaeological approaches, our picture of young lives in the Palaeolithic is now marvellously vivid.”
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Deep Time Sickness
“In Mexico, people who are ‘tocado’—’touched’—reveal that geological traumas, like earthquakes, can destabilize our concepts of health, identity and even time.”
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An Interview with MacArthur ‘Genius’ Jason De León
The anthropologist studies the objects left behind by migrants as they cross the border.
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Civilization Was Supposed to Make Our Lives Better, Right?
Cultivating crops led to permanent settlements, but also greed and exploitation. Was it all worth it?
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‘I Started to Think About the Prospect of Documenting a Culture That I Understood.’
After my internship, my first assignment for National Geographic was a story about the Zinacenteco Indians in the highlands of Chiapas. The subject was interesting but very challenging. As a woman, my access was mostly limited to other women who only spoke the Maya language I was struggling to learn. Once I traversed the language barrier, it […]
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Really Old Stuff: A Reading List About Our Prehistoric Past
Four stories that take us millennia back into the past.