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I spent 5 years with some of Trump’s biggest fans. Here’s what they won’t tell you
How Donald Trump took a narrative of unfairness and twisted it to his advantage. By Arlie Russell Hochschild.
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Dogs, monkeys, cats: 2,000-year-old pet cemetery uncovered in Egypt
A few animals still wore iron collars when they were laid to rest, and the graves of two young cats include ostrich-shell beads.
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Where Germans Make Peace with Their Dead
Through a practice that is part therapy and part séance, children of war come to terms with their history. By Burkhard Bilger.
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Trumped and Abandoned
In the season of Trump’s ascendancy, the cult of guns and the hate of Hillary were so often treated in public discourse as some new fever in the land, like Zika freshly arrived from the tropics. By Susan Faludi.
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The Skeletal Welsh Horse You Must Beat in a Battle of Rhymes
In the Welsh folkloric tradition of Mari Lwyd, a horse skull visits your home near Christmas, and you must best it in a challenge of rhymes.
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When the debutante met the tribe
Why a Toronto woman left high society to spend 50 years living with a remote Amazon tribe. By Joe O’Connor.
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Inside the Creepy Collections of an Oddities Museum
Take a peek (if you dare) at weird wonders from the Morbid Anatomy Museum, which just closed its doors for the last time.
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How Italian Spaghetti Became a Haitian Breakfast Staple
A short history of a most incongruous dish
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The astonishing vision and focus of Namibia’s nomads
The Himba people of Namibia can see fine details and ignore distraction much better than most other human beings – a finding that may reflect the ways that modern life is changing us. By David Robson.
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Forest Prayers With Russia's Polytheistic Mari
The Mari people of central Russia speak a distinct language and practice a separate religion from their Christian neighbors. Photographer Sergei Poteryaev and reporter Regina Khisamova attended a traditional prayer ceremony in one of the sacred forest groves of the Mari El Republic.
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Prehistoric Native Americans farmed macaws in 'feather factories'
Birds were spiritual emblems in pueblos of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
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The Mysterious Power of Arrogance
Why do overbearing, obnoxious people so often come out on top? What a story from Papua New Guinea reveals about the rise of Donald Trump. By Joel Robbins, (Feb. 2, 2017)
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‘Anumeric’ people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers?
From the Amazon to Nicaragua, there are humans who never learn numbers. What can these anumeric cultures teach us about ourselves? By Caleb Everett.
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Tripping on Peyote in Navajo Nation
A journalist exploring psychedelics’ therapeutic potential participates in a ceremony of the Native American Church. By John Horgan. (July 5, 2017)
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The Authoritarian Personality Revisited: Reading Adorno in the Age of Trump
“There is reason to look for psychological types,” Adorno explained, “because the world in which we live is typed and ‘produces’ different ‘types’ of persons.” By Peter E. Gordon. (June 15, 2016)
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Meet the Men Who Literally Dance With Scissors
Forget running with scissors; this competitive Quechua dance takes danger to the next level. (Don’t try this at home.)
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Little girls dreaming big, racing horses in Mongolia
'If we don't have horses, we're not Mongols'
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Life and Death After the Steel Mills
Anthropologist Christine Walley raises questions about how to create and support meaningful work in a postindustrial world. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
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Slow Fade of the Pennsylvania Irish
A new book tells the story of the immigrants from Donegal who still inhabit modern-day Trump Country. By Charles F. McElwee III.
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Conjuring Anthropology’s Future
I suspect that I was invited to review Magic’s Reason because it is largely about stage magic and stage magicians, a topic on which I once wrote a book myself... By Simon During.
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