Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern ...

Boas charged that four American anthropologists, whom he did not name, had abused their professional research positions by conducting espionage in Central America during the First World War.

which describes anthropology unambiguously as a science. The real shocker is that anthropologists cannot agree what the discipline is about. Apparently, a committee had floundered in trying to ...

It would not (with only a few exceptions) be a list of “thou shall not” statements of activities that anthropologists should avoid. And it would also not mark a return to a role the association ...

The book has already ignited a firestorm of controversy among anthropologists, and although it will take some time to evaluate all of the evidence, the charges levelled in this book — which ...

This might explain why anthropologists often end up in heated debates with economists, who instead understand the world through numeric aggregates and abstract models. Mainstream economists take a ...

At academic conferences in China, scholars who belong to my field — business anthropology — are still few and far between. Not long ago, I and several thousand other anthropologists from across the ...

In “The Anthropologists,” Aysegul Savas celebrates the “unremarkable grace” of a couple’s ordinary days. It’s enchanting. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book Review.

Opinions expressed are those of the author. Anthropologists are trained to observe, listen and ask thoughtful questions about what people do and why they do it. They study the invisible forces ...

There are no quotation marks in The Anthropologists, the third novel by writer Ayşegül Savaş. Even when we encounter direct speech, it is as if the punctuation would impose competing voices on ...