Curated playlist
Anthropology
- Social classThe word class comes from Latin, where census takers sorted citizens by wealth. It decided military service.
- AnthropologyAnthropology's first society began in 1859 when Paul Broca left a biology society in Paris after reading Darwin.
- PolygynyPolygyny, a man having several wives, may have spread partly because wives did farm work.
- Race (human categorization)The word race once meant almost any group of people, even close relatives. By the 1800s it had become a ranking system.
- WeddingQueen Victoria wore a pure white gown to marry Prince Albert. Many quickly copied her.
- KinshipIs family decided by blood, by living together, or by who feeds you? Anthropologists have debated it for over a century.
- Human evolutionThe fossil Lucy got her name from a Beatles song played loudly in the dig camp.
- Human migrationCrossing a border is not the main kind of human migration. Moving within one country is larger globally.
- ArchaeologyThe first archaeologist was a king who dug around 550 BC. Nabonidus missed the age of his find by about 1,500 years.
- PrimitivismPicasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907 after studying African masks and sculpture.