Manvir Singh | writing

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manvir singh

assistant professor, department of anthropology, university of california, davis

mvrsingh@ucdavis.edu | manvir.manvir@gmail.com

curriculum vitae

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popular pieces and essays

For academic publications, see the Integrative Anthropology lab website.

How much does our language shape our thinking?

The New Yorker, 2024

Are your morals too good to be true?

The New Yorker, 2024

Why we’re turning psychiatric labels into identities

The New Yorker, 2024

Don’t believe what they’re telling you about misinformation

The New Yorker, 2024

“Dune” and the delicate art of making fictional languages

The New Yorker, 2024

The Mongol hordes: They’re just like us

The New Yorker, 2024

Is an all-meat diet what nature intended?

The New Yorker, 2023

How dowries are fuelling a femicide epidemic

The New Yorker, 2023

It's time to rethink the idea of the "Indigenous"

The New Yorker, 2023

How the Huxleys electrified evolution

The New Yorker, 2022

The shamanification of the tech CEO

The idea of primitive communism is as seductive as it is wrong

It’s easy to blame mental health issues on tech. But is it fair?

Is coping with PTSD harder for US soldiers?

The Guardian, 2021

Beyond the !Kung

The power of prohibition

Kulturaustausch, 2021

Psychedelics weren’t as common in ancient cultures as we think

The cute critter rewriting our understanding of prehistory

Atlas Obscura, 2020

Is marriage over?

Violence and the Inuit

The New York Review of Books, 2019

People suspected of witchcraft are still being persecuted and killed

What makes the sympathetic plot a universal story type?

The Conversation, 2019

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