The concept of relation holds a privileged place in how anthropologists think and write about
the social and cultural lives they study. In Relations, eminent anthropologist Marilyn …

An investigation of the work and workers in fossil preparation labs reveals the often
unacknowledged creativity and problem-solving on which scientists rely. Those awe …

In 2019 several funerals were held for glaciers. If enough glaciers die, could they go extinct?
Is there geologic extinction? Yes. This article develops three arguments to support this claim …

Museum displays tend to black-box science, by displaying scientific facts without
explanations of how those facts were made. A recent trend in exhibit design upends this …

It takes a bold, innovative mind to publish an exercise in speculative evolution pertaining to
an alternative timeline. Dale Russell's studies of the troodontid Stenonychosaurus and of …

This article looks at artistic impressions of future robotics and considers how they inspire
research into human–machine interaction. Our analysis of visual scientific practices and the …

This chapter situates the practice of geology within the history of European imperialism,
arguing that the earth sciences are deeply bound up with the political economy of extractive …

The founders of cryptozoology in the 1950s implied that their objects of investigation,
animals elsewhere presumed mythical or extinct, were beyond respectable science. Back in …

In the summer of 1902, a small crew of fossil hunters from the American Museum of Natural
History left New York in search of dinosaur bones. Acting on a tip from the noted …

Animal point-of-view fiction (also sometimes called “xenofiction”) is a niche genre that
emerged in the modern era. Both prose fiction and comics told from an animal point-of-view …