Dale DeBakcsyNov 27, 2023Archaeology & AnthropologyCultures in Contact: Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons and the Mechanics of Acculturation.Culture is not a thing. It is a negotiation, an ongoing tumult of borrowings and innovations hung upon a skeleton of previously...
Dale DeBakcsyOct 15, 2023BiologyChronicler of the Path Untread: The 19th Century Journeys of Isabella Bird.As Isabella Bird, in her seventieth year and in the middle of her last great adventure, sat across from the Sultan at Marrakesh, telling...
Dale DeBakcsyJun 12, 2023Archaeology & AnthropologyOur Neighbor, Australopithecus: The Anthropology of Mary LeakeyThe 1960s and early 1970s were the Rock Star era of palaeoanthropology, when each year seemed to bring a stunning new glimpse into the...