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Tuttle on science and justice
Russell H. Tuttle recently discussed his book Footprints from Fossils to Gallows: Adventures in Paleoanthropology, Primatology, and Forensic Anthropol...
Rachel Howard goes “In Search of an American Dream”
Rachel Howard goes “In Search of an American Dream” in Current Anthropology, exploring layered history, what we do not know, and the haunting of nonkn...
Kolata discusses the function of raised fields associated with the Tiwanaku society
Raised-field agricultural systems have received attention from scholars involved in the analysis of prehistoric agricultural intensification in the Ne...
Transformation, Growth, and Governance at Caracol, Belize
Read “Transformation, Growth, and Governance at Caracol, Belize,” by Adrian S. Z. Chase via Knowledge@UChicago. Around 650 CE, the city of Caracol was...
UChicago at the 2023 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting
Find our faculty and students at the November 15-19, 2023, annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology So...
Thinking with Ngangas
Read Stephan Palmié’s comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science. Palmié aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert p...
Footprints from Fossils to Gallows
In a blend of memoir and rigorous scientific investigation, Russell H. Tuttle explores the profound impacts of evidence in both historical and legal r...
Kolata on El poder de los Incas
Alan L. Kolata discussed his book El poder de los Incas: La organización social, económica, religiosa y política de un imperio with Carmen Escalante, ...
Governing water insecurity: navigating indigenous water rights and regulatory politics in settler colonial states
Anthropology Professor Teresa Montoya and co-authors Rachel Arsenault, Andrew Curley, and Nicole J. Wilson were awarded the 2021 Best Paper of the Yea...
Producing Indigenous Media: Protocols, Circulation, and the Politics of Accountability
Anthropology Professor Teresa Montoya and co-authors Angelo Baca, Teresa Martinez-Chavez, and Ikaika Ramones chart the ethical protocols and decisions...