Curated category
Anthropology
- Social classSocial class shapes the schools a person attends, the jobs open to them, when they retire, whom they may marry, and how police and the courts treat them.
- AnthropologyAnthropology is the scientific study of humanity, and it sits at an awkward crossroads where biology meets sociology. It looks at human behavior, human…
- PolygynyPolygyny, the practice of a man marrying multiple women at once, is not a relic of ancient history. It shapes the daily lives of roughly 11 percent of the…
- Race (human categorization)Race, as a category for sorting human beings, has shaped laws, wars, and daily lives for centuries. Yet in 2023, the U.S.
- WeddingA wedding brings two people together in one of the oldest ceremonies humans have ever devised. Somewhere right now, a bride in a white gown is walking down…
- KinshipKinship is one of the oldest questions humans have asked about themselves: who counts as family, and why? Anthropologist Robin Fox put it plainly: the study…
- Human evolutionHuman evolution did not move in a straight line. The source describes it as weblike, because modern humans interbred with archaic humans rather than…
- Human migrationHuman migration is the movement of people from one place to another with the intention of settling, permanently or temporarily, in a new location.
- ArchaeologyArchaeology begins, oddly enough, with a king who lived 2,500 years ago. Around 550 BC in Ancient Mesopotamia, the ruler Nabonidus dug into the ground…
- PrimitivismPrimitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that shaped some of the most celebrated and contested works in the Western artistic canon.