More than iron, stone, or oil, wood explains human history.

How a group of anthropologists set out to study other societies and reflected on their own.

Ari Aster's folk-horror flick is frightening, beautiful, and just a little unhinged.

What the violent death of an American missionary on a far-flung island might say about the rest of us

A folklore expert tries to understand the people who ruin the internet.

How a 1950s professor built a gigantic database of thoughts and feelings.

A solution for working mothers that has been around for centuries

There is a history in some cultures of the 'peaceful' consumption of human bodies

With the involuntary help of a social anthropologist