Anthropology

Eating bugs: Would you dine on cicadas? Crickets? Buttered beetles?

2013-05-16 10:05:00

Mmmm. Just look at that plump little cicada. Can you imagine plucking it off its leaf and popping it in your mouth? Too much? How about after it's flash fried with a little butter, garlic and sea salt? Face it, America. We're inch-worming our way closer...

'Cultural Politics of Seeds' at UCLA on May 17

2013-05-06 07:00:00

The UCLA Center for the Study of Women will be presenting a symposium on the "Cultural Politics of Seeds" on May 17, as part of the Life (Un)Ltd project which explores the impact of recent developments in biotechnology and biosciences on feminist studies....

Jamestown settlers ate 14-year-old girl, researchers say

2013-05-01 13:47:00

The early American settlers called it "the starving time," and accounts of the winter of 1609-1610 were so ghastly, and so morbid, that scholars weren't sure if the stories were true. George Percy, then president of the English settlement of Jamestown...

Pedro Ramirez Vazquez dies at 94; architect changed the face of Mexico City

2013-04-18 00:00:00

Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, an architect who changed the face of Mexico City by designing a number of landmark modernist structures, died on Tuesday, his 94th birthday. The cause was pneumonia, according to Mexico's National Council for Culture and the Arts....

Jonathan Gold quiz: Dead meat on a stick

2013-04-05 14:25:00

Did civilization begin at the moment when the first human impaled a bit of meat on a twig and charred it over a lightning fire? Claude L�vi-Strauss had a theory about it, we are sure, but we haven't taken an anthropology class for a long, long time. At...

Alex Karpovsky balances TV's 'Girls' with filmmaking

2013-03-03 07:00:00

Alex Karpovsky plays one of the boys of "Girls," which will gear up for Season 3 shooting a couple of weeks after Season 2 ends March 17. Karpovsky is also an independent filmmaker, and his two latest films, the comedy "Red Flag" and thriller "Rubberneck,...

Mexicans now have a bone to pick over relics of revered heroes

2013-01-16 05:00:00

MEXICO CITY -- In the run-up to Mexico’s bicentennial celebration of independence from Spain, then-President Felipe Calderon oversaw an elaborate parade to escort the bones of the nation’s founding fathers from their resting place at Mexico...

Shaped from clay: The rapidly evolving pottery of Mata Ortiz, Mexico

2013-01-13 00:00:00

MATA ORTIZ, Mexico —The place felt so familiar. The air was dry and warm and slightly smoky. Streets were unpaved, rutted, edged with weeds below ramshackle wooden fences. Swaybacked horses and muscled pickup trucks dueled for right of way on the...

Arthur Jensen dies at 89; his views on race and IQ created a furor

2012-11-02 00:00:00

Arthur Jensen, a UC Berkeley professor whose scholarly contributions to the field of psychological measurement were often overshadowed by the furor over his findings on race-based differences in intelligence, has died. He was 89. One of the most...

'Mansome': Morgan Spurlock examines men's self-image, grooming

2012-05-20 00:00:00

Morgan Spurlock, the clown prince of documentary filmmaking, has examined fast food ("Super Size Me") and product placement ("The Greatest Movie Ever Sold"). Now, in the just-released"Mansome," he turns his attention to the somewhat surprising topic of...

Elizabeth Brumfiel dies at 66; feminist archaeologist

2012-01-17 00:00:00

Elizabeth Brumfiel, a widely recognized scholar in the field of feminist archaeology who studied Aztec culture, examining not only the functional and economic significance of ancient relics but what scholars learned about changing gender roles and...

Mexico archaeologists may have found 1st Pyramid of Sun offering

2011-12-14 16:37:44

The Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City is one of the signature works of architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, who died April 16 at 94.

2013-05-06 09:42:54

Doug Owsley, division head for Physical Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, displays the skull of "Jane of Jamestown" during a news conference at the museum in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2013.

2013-05-01 00:00:00

Central Michigan University anthropology students clear away dirt Friday near what is thought to be a posthole from a barn that once stood at McGulpin Point Lighthouse.

2012-08-13 09:13:00