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The cute critter rewriting our understanding of prehistory
Atlas Obscura
2020
Is marriage over?
Aeon
2020
Orphans & their quests
Aeon
2019
Violence and the Inuit
[Comment on essay by Helen Epstein]
The New York Review of Books
2019
People suspected of witchcraft are still being persecuted and killed
Vice
2019
Modern shamans
Sapiens/The Conversation
2019