WEIRD ANTHROPOLOGY
Australia’s green light for the procedure opens up potential to treat bacterial infections, as well as other diseases. A fecal microbiota transplant helps an unhealthy gut to ‘repopulate the bacterial microenvironment’. Photograph: Steve Gschmeissner/Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF – Tory Shepherd Last modified …
Participants in the Indigenous Peoples Of the Americas Parade in New York City, 2022 Oct 15. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images – By Torivio Fodder, Indigenous Governance Program Manager and Professor of Practice, University of Arizona Published: 2022 Nov 07 – Curious Kids is a …
Got the winning ticket? AP Photo/Julio Cortez – By Jay L. Zagorsky, Clinical associate professor, Boston University Published: 2022 Nov 04 – The latest Powerball jackpot swelled to US$1.5 billion on 2022 Nov 02 – just shy of the record amount – after …
Dance is a unique way of passing on cultural stories to a younger generation. Aaron Hawkins/Flickr.com, CC BY-ND – By Rosalyn R. LaPier, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, The University of Montana Published: 2018 Oct 05 – Alaska has a “linguistic emergency,” according …
This clay facial reconstruction of Kennewick Man, carefully sculpted around the morphological features of his skull, suggests how he may have looked alive nearly 9,000 years ago. Brittney Tatchell, Smithsonian Institution – By Samuel Redman, Assistant Professor of History, UMass Amherst Published: 2016 …
James Gensaw, a Yurok language high school teacher in far northern California, goes over some words with a student. Mneesha Gellman, Author provided – By Mneesha Gellman, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emerson College Published: 2022 Nov 03 – Whenever November would roll …
Monsters and spirits –including ‘tsukumogami,’ which are made of everyday objects – in the ‘Hyakki-Yagyō-Emaki’ scroll, painted between the 14th and 16th centuries. Wikimedia Commons – By Kevin C. Taylor, Director of Religious Studies and Instructor of Philosophy, University of Memphis Published: 2022 …
Policemen keep a mob back as James Meredith, a Black student trying to enroll at the University of Mississippi, is driven away after being refused admittance to the all-White university in Oxford on 1962 Sep 25. AP Photo – By Joseph Daniel Ura, …
Many are still reporting minimization of their long Covid symptoms – and it’s partially attributable to the fact that female patients are routinely dismissed. Left to Right: Pitra Moeis, Varalakshmi Padma Priya Dharmavarapu, Georgia Lancaster, Beth Ann Pardo, Alice Rumble. Photograph: Febri Sugita, …
Sacheen Littlefeather speaks at the 45th Academy Awards. Bettmann/Getty Images – By Dina Gilio Whitaker, Lecturer on American Indian Studies, California State University San Marcos Published: 2022 Oct 28 – When Sacheen Littlefeather died on 2022 Oct 02, obituaries reflecting on the actress …
