Prof. Silk has found that when female baboons “tend and befriend” one another, the resulting release of oxytocin provides a calming effect that helps reduce stress. Read the whole story here.
Jorja Leap earned her Ph.D in anthropology at UCLA before going on to become an international expert in crisis intervention. Ten years ago she returned to Los Angeles to perform outreach and intervention work with LA’s gangs. Click here to listen to her speak to NPR about her work and her new book Jumped In: What Gangs Taught […]
UCLA Today has featured Prof. Gupta’s work on the lives of the “virtual migrants” of Indian call center workers. Read the full article here.
Prof. Fessler and colleagues’ article on danger assessment was featured in both the Los Angeles Times, The Economist, and the UCLA Newsroom. The study finds that people believe men holding a dangerous object, such as a gun, to be taller and stronger than if they held an innocuous object like a paintbrush. The article was written with post-doctoral fellow Colin Holbrook […]
Prof. Donnan’s new book Chotuna and Chornancap: Excavating an Ancient Peruvian Legend tells the story of verifying the legendary tale of Naymlap. UCLA Today spoke to Prof. Donnan about his book; read the article here. More information about the book can be found here.
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Left Coast Press has published a new book by Distinguished Professor Dwight W. Read. How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies is part of the Left Coast Press series Key Questions in Anthropology: Little Books on Big Ideas. The book was the AAA Anthropology News featured publication of the month for December.How Culture Makes Us Human @Amazon Barnes […]
Berghan Books has published a new book in the ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology series called The Anthropology of Empathy: Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies. Co-edited by Professor Doug Hollan and Associate Professor Jason Throop, the book also contains contributions from each: “Suffering, Empathy, and Ethical Subjectivity in Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia” (Throop) and “Vicissitudes of […]
Associate Professor Dan Fessler has been interviewed in a NY Times article about disgust. The article can be read here.
Assistant Adjunct Professor Robert Lemelson’s documentary 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy was featured in a New York Times article about the 1965-66 mass killings of at least a half a million leftists in Indonesia. For more on the film, visit the website here.
