How Our Contradictions Make Us Human and Inspire Creativity

Post date 14th December 2016
Post author By David Berliner
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The fissures created in our experiences between our principles and actions can be a source of profound creativity and reflection.
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Allying With Parasites to Fight Industrial Oil Palm

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A Ganoderma fungus epidemic attacks oil palm trees at a plantation in Indonesian-controlled West Papua. Sophie Chao In October 2019, I traveled through an oil palm monocrop with…

Post date 19th October 2021
Post author By Sophie Chao
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Collaborating So a 200-Year-Old Pipe Can Continue Its Work

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A museum curator and a First Nations leader explain how a treaty pipe, sold at auction, exemplifies a new path for repatriations in Canada. A PIPE’S HOMECOMING In…

Post date 27th June 2023
Post author By Bridget Alex
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Searching for the Sources of Water Scarcity

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Residents in Mumbai collect water at a community tank. Kuni Takahashi/Getty Images Nikhil Anand, an environmental and urban anthropologist, grew up in Mumbai, India. In 2007, after studyi…

Post date 13th May 2020
Post author By Yasaswini Sampathkumar
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(Almost) Native Ethnography Meets the Heat of the Tunisian Desert

Post date 29th March 2022
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