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Is Generation X the Greatest Generation After All?

by Julia Sorensen Generation X is the only generation that seems to escape contempt. Millennials...

Art in New York

by Camille Searle Art in New York is never just art. It is infrastructure, real...

Loving a Shore Half Gone

by Maggie Tarlo The tide goes out and leaves behind a secret world. At Pawleys Island...

Croissants Without Borders

by Camille Searle New Yorkers are convinced they invented everything. The bagel, the dollar slice,...

An Ethics of Banality

by Marcelo Pisarro There's this little song recorded by the British singer, songwriter, and occasional...

Black Cats and Broken Calendars

by Camille Searle The problem with bad luck is not that we believe in it,...

New York Like You Mean It

by Mara Taylor You think you’re coming to New York. You think you’re arriving. Entering....

Valentine’s Day: Love, Money, and Prefabricated Meanings

by Haley Bliss Every February, we witness a curious anthropological phenomenon: Valentine's Day, a commercial...

How to Lie with Writing on Music

by Marcelo Pisarro The first sentence of How to Lie with Maps, the 1991 book...

Anthropological field guide to the absurdity of Christmas

by Camille Searle As an anthropologist, I spend my days studying human behavior, rituals, and...

Anthropology gets its groove back

by Camille Searle As an anthropologist, when you think of transformative works, you probably envision...

Halloween inequalities

by Mara Taylor As the days of October shorten, houses donning elaborate decorations, and stores...

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