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Beyond the !Kung
Aeon
2021
The power of prohibition
Kulturaustausch
2021
Psychedelics weren't as common in ancient cultures as we think
Vice
2020
The cute critter rewriting our understanding of prehistory
Atlas Obscura
2020
Is marriage over?
Aeon
2020
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
Orphans & their quests
Aeon
2019
Modern shamans
Sapiens/The Conversation
2019