As a cultural anthropologist, I have studied some aspects of various cultures, especially in societies where I have done ...

The practice of untouchability is most visible during the cremation. Again, no pundit would perform the funeral and read ...

Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help ...

The remains of a young man, found in his bed in the destroyed town of Herculaneum, included glassy fragments that had mystified archaeologists ...

These masks, known for their distortion and asymmetry, are one of the oldest kinds of art in southwest Alaska.

Naomi Westerman's play Puppy is coming to the King's Head Theatre in April. Billed as  an outrageous, sex-positive, ...

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Heide Castañeda, University of South Florida anthropology professor, spoke Thursday about the U.S. immigration system and ...

Heide Castañeda, a professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida, spoke at the event Thursday to discuss the ...

Public intellectuals and scientists, as well as films and novels, have long noted the fragility of our "Spaceship Earth" and have made the case for a more unified planet.

While our genes are not changed by life experiences, they can be tuned through a system known as epigenetics. In response to ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...