For her book, America: The Cookbook, Gabrielle Langholtz looked at cookbooks as well as narrative and anthropological books to fully explore America’s culinary history—Little House on the Prairie and the Sterns’ many varied books among them.
Evolutionary theorists propose that female desire for domineering males helped create a patriarchal world
DNA from old skeletons suggests a complex history of new DNA being introduced.
1,500 years ago, urbanites in Mesoamerica's biggest city domesticated rabbits for fun and profit.
Hunter-gatherers—and presumably all our ancestors—lived as equals
The oldest known genome of a modern human solves long-standing puzzles about the New World's genetic heritage.
Those of us who research race, racism and inequality must continue to name racism without sugarcoating it; to analyze the ways in which racism is maintained and produced inside and outside of our discipline. Most important, we need to interrogate the new hidden forms of structural racism and deconstruct, in the best sense of the word, the ways in which racism expresses itself in the age of "post-racial color blindness."
The eminent University of Chicago anthropologist Marshall Sahlins resigned from the National Academy of Sciences on Friday, citing his objections to its military partnerships and to its electing as a member Napoleon Chagnon, a long-controversial anthropologist who is back in the news thanks to the publication of his new book, Noble Savages.
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