Did Cameroon’s elite spread homosexuality through their connections to secret societies? Instead of disproving the conspiracy theory, the study examines why it came to be.
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From kimchi to kombucha and sauerkraut to sourdough, many traditional food staples across cultures make use of fermentation. And these variations are reflected in your microbiome.
Vaccine skepticism, and the broader medical mistrust and far-reaching anxieties it reflects, is not just a fringe position in the 21st century.
Hidden forces are always at work in the world, and people always want to control them, a cognitive anthropologist explains. Enter the human universal of shamanism.
Opening the minds of worried new parents to other ways of raising children may assuage fears that if they fail to ‘do the right thing,’ their children will be doomed.
Reggae in South Africa has lost its visibility and prominence inside the country after apartheid. But local artists have built up extensive international links.
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Professor Emerita of Anthropology, African Studies, and Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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PhD Candidate in Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
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Post-doctoral researcher, cultural studies, University of Eastern Finland
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Université de Montréal
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University
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Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Lafayette College
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Professor Emeritus of African Anthropology, University of Amsterdam