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In the three years since Donald Trump first announced his plans to run for president, the United States seems to become more dramatically polarized and divided with each passing …
Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens-and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new …
As the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Levi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought. Through a mixture of insights …
In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original …
In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the …
How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers …
In 2002 young Fadime Sahindal was brutally murdered by her own father. She belonged to a family of Kurdish immigrants who had lived in Sweden for almost two decades. But Fadime s …
Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In Alive in the Writing an intriguing hybrid of …
In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful …
A meticulous and thought-provoking look at how Tribes use language to engage in "e;cooperation without submission."e;It is well-known that there is a complicated …