Prof. John Marra details just why Carbon-14 is the most important isotope — existing in every living thing — in his new book "Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science." Read more ›
Security is no longer just a lock on the door. It’s about access, infrastructure, and surveillance, from homes and neighborhoods right on up to borders and the regimes that control them. Read more ›
How do you measure health? A cultural anthropologist came up with a framework for health that examines both “social practice and the physical body.” Read more ›
A recent study suggests that when children cut back on physical activity, metabolic competition for calories is less, leaving their bodies free to grow more. Read more ›
In her new memoir, Katherine Verdery recounts the time she spent in communist Romania in the 1970s, during which she was branded a spy, followed, and surveilled. Read more ›
In a new analysis of fossils and biomechanics, a team of researchers discovered that the earliest hominins had the bone and muscle structure to both walk and climb. Read more ›
Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place situates ideas of space and place in contexts of globalization, real estate development, violence, social inequity, and territorial conflict. Read more ›