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How humans search for the meaning of life
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From the Elgin Marbles to NAGPRA: What is repatriation?
Repatriation is about more than museums taking stolen materials off display.
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Margaret Mead conducting fieldwork in Bali
American anthropologist Margaret Mead with a woman and her niece in Bali, 1936. Mead...
Manuscript Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin, carbon print photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868.
Courtesy of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan.
Courtesy of the Union College Archives at Schaffer Library, Schenectady, New York
Émile Durkheim
Émile Durkheim.
Pictorial Press Ltd./Alamy
Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist and public intellectual Pierre Bourdieu, 1998.
© Remy De La Mauviniere—AP/Shutterstock.com
Edward Burnett Tylor
Edward Burnett Tylor, detail of a chalk drawing by George Bonavia, 1860; in the National...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
The father of American anthropology
Franz Boas, 1941.
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Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict.
Courtesy of Columbia University, New York
Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski.
Courtesy of the Polish Library, London
Pachacamac, Peru
Archaeologists mapping their finds at Pachacamac, Peru, an indigenous town occupied...
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forensic anthropology: examining skull
Forensic anthropologist examining a human skull found in a mass grave in Bosnia and...
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Bartolomé de Las Casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas, engraving.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Max Weber
Max Weber, 1918.
Leif Geiges
British Museum
British Museum, London.
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Montesquieu
Montesquieu.
Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Mongol shaman
Mongol shaman wearing a ritual gown and holding a drum with the image of a spirit...
National Museum of Finland
Julian Steward
Julian Steward, 1937.
Harris & Ewing Collection/Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (Digital File Number: LC-DIG-hec-29225)
Palace of Nations
The Palace of Nations has served as the headquarters of the League of Nations and...
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Nanook of the North
Scene from Nanook of the North (1922), documentary film directed by Robert...
Courtesy of International Film Seminars, Inc.; photograph, the Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive, New York City
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