I’m an Assistant Professor in the Sociology & Anthropology Department at Simon Fraser University and I received my PhD in Sociology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Resear…
A young anthropologist named Margaret Mead journeyed to American Samoa in 1925 and claimed she found a culture where teenagers were sexually free. Fame and controversy followed. In…
Modern science is full of surprising analytical techniques that can be used in a wide variety of remarkable circumstances. My favorite technique is dendrochronology—the study of “tree time.”…
