BY: Barbara Turk Niskač Can you teach anthropology to very young children? Children learn by observation and experience, so anthropology seems like an inevitable and spontaneous by-product of everyday

Pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas. Credit: Alamy In 2012, both Kiplinger and Forbes ranked anthropology as the least valuable undergraduate major, unleashing a small wave of indignation as many out

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A Life on and Off the Navajo Nation The reservation has one of the country’s highest rates of infection. May 13, 2020 Credit... Giacomo Bagnara By Ms. Johns is a founder of Native Renewables, a nonpro

Human skin color reflects an evolutionary balancing act tens of thousands of years in the making. There’s a convincing explanation for why human skin tone varies as a global gradient, with the darkest

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Last week, three female religious leaders — a Jewish rabbi, an Episcopal vicar and a Unitarian reverend — and a male imam, or Muslim prayer leader, walked into the sacred space in front of the ornatel

Leila Janah, Entrepreneur Who Hired the Poor, Dies at 37 A child of Indian immigrants, she created digital jobs that pay a living wage to thousands in Africa and India, believing that the intellect of

What is gender? This is a question that cuts to the very heart of feminist theory and practice, and is pivotal to current debates in social justice activism about class, identity and privilege. In eve

SNA (Tokyo) — Carlos Ghosn defense lawyer Takashi Takano has written a blog post in Japanese language, dated January 4, expressing his outrage at the prosecution of his client Carlos Ghosn. This follo

Gertrude Himmelfarb, also known as Bea Kristol, spent much of her time thinking about and writing on the moral questions of the Victorian era. (Sylvia Johnson) Economists measure economic change and j

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In 1838, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois. The subject was citizenship and the preservation of America’s political institutions. The backdrop was the th

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Napoleon Chagnon, the controversial anthropologist, whose work provoked fierce debates about the roots of war, has died at the age of 81. I’d…

Not that long ago, Margaret Mead was one of the most widely known intellectuals in America. Her first book, “ Coming of Age in Samoa ,” published in 1928, when she was twenty-six, was a best-seller, a

Mindfulness meditation training is associated with changes in resting-state brain activity, according to new research conducted with elementary school students. The study, published in the Journal of Psychophysiology, provides new insights into why mindfulness meditation could be effective in…

When I Was White By Sarah Valentine When one thinks of American blackness, there is the unsaid ugly truth that nearly all American blacks who have descended from the historical African diaspora in Ame

This column is embarrassing, to both Yancy and to the New York Times. If I were in charge of “The Stone”, I’d sure as hell do a better job than the present editors. For one thing, I wouldn’t publish soppy, chest-beating pabulum like this.

Sign up for Quillette Sydney. London. Toronto. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. If you are conversant with the vocabulary of progressive discourse on racism, you have probably heard of the term ‘white fragility.’ The brainchild of sociologist Dr. Robin DiAngelo, ‘white fragility’ has gained much…

On July 4th, President Trump held just one telephone call with a foreign leader—President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi , of Egypt, a former field marshal who has orchestrated two military coups since 2011 and

Civilization originated in the Fertile Crescent region, including parts of modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Egypt. That's the lesson most of us learned in school. In it, civilization is used in a highly positive way to refer to the rise of city-states and the development of…

Reporting from St. Louis — Two years ago, when the mayor’s office in St. Louis announced a $311,000 contract to tear down an old shoe factory, it made a point of identifying the demolition company as

Reporting from Sacramento — In a Time Life book titled “The Indians of California,” there’s a passage that probably isn’t taught to schoolchildren studying our not-so-golden state’s checkered history. It reads: “One old Pomo woman looked on in horror as two whites impaled a little girl on the…

Op-Ed Contributor Berkeley, Calif. CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that…

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Opinion Commentary Martin Luther King, Colorblind Radical He flirted with democratic socialism and opposed the Vietnam War but stood against identity politics. By Coleman Hughes Jan. 17, 2019 7:02 pm

B efore “Build the wall!” there was “Tear down this wall!” In his famous 1987 speech, Ronald Reagan demanded that the “scar” of the Berlin Wall be removed and insisted that the offending restriction o

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The elder partner in the famous team of Goodnight and Loving, and the man who pioneered cattle drives from Texas, Oliver Loving died in September, 1867–but the story of his death has lived on in Larry McMurtry’s novel Lonesome Dove. In the novel, the scenes leading to the death of Robert Duvall’s…

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Sign up for Quillette Sydney. London. Toronto. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. When I attended a rally with my family in Little Havana for then-Senator Barack Obama in 2007, our old neighborhood greeted both us and the future 44th president as if we were traitors. Older, conservative protestors yelled…

The way we teach math in America hurts all students, but it may be hurting girls the most. Aug. 7, 2018 Credit...Richie Pope By Ms. Oakley is an engineering professor and the author of a book on learning. For parents who want to encourage their daughters in STEM subjects, it’s crucial to remember…

Sign up for Quillette Sydney. London. Toronto. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. There is arguably no racial disparity more striking than the wealth gap. While the median white household earns just 65 percent more income than its black counterpart, its net worth is fully ten times as high. And, unlike…

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An American can always benefit from rereading the Declaration of Independence. But I suspect that this Fourth of July is better spent with that document’s best interpreter, Abraham Lincoln, beginning