"Why Do They Want to Destroy Us?": Letter from the Munduruku
In the past we, the Munduruku, were feared for our fame in the art of group warfare and we had strategies for attacking our enemies. We did not…
Author: Glenn H. Shepard
Kaya-Pop: The brave new world of indigenous music in Brazil
The lead singer crooning catchy pop lyrics, the gyrating chorus-line of girls in mini-skirts, the ecstatic crowd of teenagers swaying and snapping photos with their cell phones, the…
Remembering Francis Bossuyt
The evening before his 31st birthday, biologist Francis Bossuyt went for his daily swim in the lake at Cocha Cashu Biological Station in Manu Park, Peru, and was…
An Ax to Grind: Napoleon Chagnon, the Yanomami and the anthropology tribe
I felt like I had walked right into one of the Napoleon Chagnon/Timothy Asch Yanomami films. At one end of the circular village enclosure, a shouting match had…
Preemptive Anthropology: FAQs
Remembering the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, here is a bit of dark humor written as the bombs rained over Baghdad: Anthropological ethics must evolve…
Three Cheers for Periwinkle: Ethnobotany, histiocytosis and Rare Disease Day
Just over seven years ago, my youngest son, then eighteen months old, woke up one morning with a lump exactly the size and shape of an olive behind…