Need something to read this winter? Looking for a way to spend an Amazon gift card or Audible credit? I've got you covered with a few suggestions for popular science type books from top academics in ...

João Biehl, professor of anthropology, has received the Diana Forsythe Prize for his book "Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival." Biehl received the prize Nov. 22 at the annual ...

The holidays are approaching: gatherings with in-laws, crowded shopping malls, snow and ice, hampered travel. But for many, there is an elixir that makes it all bearable—wine. Robert Ulin, professor ...

UB anthropologist Phillips Stevens discusses how belief in the supernatural is a survival strategy in the latest Driven to ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Anthropology is broadly defined as the scientific study of ...

There are some things so universal that they persist across centuries, even as nations have risen and fallen and generations have come and gone. The human response to the power of color is ubiquitous, ...

After 20 non-consecutive months of field research and years of compiling it into a manuscript, Erin Stiles, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, has published a book about the ...

After months of inquiry, the American Anthropological Association has given a mixed review to a controversial book critical of scholars’ treatment of indigenous peoples of the Amazon. In a preliminary ...

Bloated. Self-indulgent. Cliched. These are the common traps of self-published books, those that never make it into the hands of a gimlet-eyed editor, someone willing to sacrifice pretty prose for the ...

There are some things so universal that they persist across centuries, even as nations have risen and fallen and generations have come and gone. The human response to the power of color is ubiquitous, ...