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This article will be released in full online February 7, 2022. Eleanor Burke Leacock taught that transhistorical, universal male dominance is a myth, not a fact.

David Graeber and David Wengrow’s "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" looks for the origins of authoritarianism and freedom.

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) was the foremost anthropologist of the twentieth century, and one of its most renowned intellectuals of any persuasion. Common readers, if they know him at all, tend to do so only by Tristes Tropiques (French for “Sad Tropics”), his 1955 memoir of his fieldwork among Brazilian tribes and his travels as an academic junketeer in other alien enclaves. That book is salted with animadversions on the spread of the “monoculture” of the West doing its worst to refashion the world in its unhandsome image. When he retails for a popular audience his experience...

Scientific American Why Anthropology Matters It’s the antidote to nativism, the enemy of hate—a vaccine of understanding, tolerance and compassion that can counter the rhetoric of demagogues Advertisement Kiplinger and  Forbes ranked anthropology as the least valuable undergraduate major, unleashing a small wave of indignation as many outside the field rushed to defend the study of culture as ideal preparation for any life or career in an interconnected and globalized world. The response from professional anthropologists, confronted by both an existential challenge and public humiliatio...