Discussion of obesity from an anthropological standpoint: historical context, biological and cultural perspectives, and cross-cultural standards of beauty.
Objects made for and placed in burials were a significant part of a proper Egyptian entombment and demonstrate the belief that life's activities continued into eternity; for chronology of dynasties and dates mentioned in ...
'AnthroNotes' editor Brooks interviews Eric Cline and Deborah Lehr from the Capitol Archaeological Institute about efforts to end looting of antiquities in Egypt after the Egyptian revolution of 2011; this article was ...
Smithsonian linguist P?z B?, a member of the Recovering Voices Project, examines the impact of modern telecommunications technology on the world's linguistic diversity and the potential for maintaining this diversity; ...
Questioning the accuracy of artistic renderings of prehistoric human life; for an updated version of this article, see 'Anthropology Explored, 2nd ed.'
Anthropologist Spang examines tourism as an ideal place to explore key questions about identity production, 'the other,' boundaries between different ethnic and cultural groups, as well as cultural exchange, change, and ...
Anthropological exploration of the complicated nature of Iraq's several communities and sub-communities, and how they view and interact with each other.
Cars are significant sites of human activity and here one car is investigated for what it can tell us about culture and technology; the author, who specializes in the study of technology and its uses, is senior cultural ...
Explores, from an anthropologist's point of view, the emerging relationships between the actual and virtual worlds; author contends that Internet technologies will shape human societies in ways we can scarcely imagine now.