Anthropology

Around the world young people are facing multiple challenges and we can learn from their increasingly interconnected and ethical approach to living

A new book explores the history and culture of Timor-Leste from the outside in, weaving together the past, present and future of an island divided by colonialism and conflict

COVID-19 exposes some of Western culture’s deepest prejudices around death and human remains, ingrained by hundreds of years of past mass death events

A new film taps into virtual reality and First Nations wisdom to help people re-conceive of the nature around them, not as a thing but as a “who” in a relationship that needs give and take

Australians are embracing new ways of commemorating the dead, including eco-friendly burials, raising new questions about how communities make use of traditional cemeteries

Anthropology studies cultures and communities, but people have always moved around, so one anthropologist has taken his research on the road in cars and on buses

Anthropologist Nigel Rapport’s fieldwork explores love and respecting the individuality of life

From algorithms that post tweets for us after we die to bequeathing a digital legacy to our families – death is being disrupted by technology

Monica Minnegal has turned watching the lives of others into a career

How an anthropologist’s cultural experiences in Cuba led to a multicultural music project in Melbourne