Charts constructed of carefully bound sticks served as memory aids, allowing sailors of the Marshall Islands to navigate between the islands by feel.

Despite the prevalence of tricks and spooky spirits in earlier years, the American commercial holiday didn’t develop until the middle of the twentieth century.

“If someone is from the Amazon,” says Evgenia Fotiou, an anthropologist who studies Western ayahuasca usage, “they bring some legitimacy” to an ayahuasca ritual.

Among the Murik people, mothering isn't something that comes "naturally" to women who give birth; it's a form of power.

NASA volunteers are experimenting with long-term isolation in a dome in preparation for long space flights.

A different angle on the issue of poor kids in America and abroad in an issue of Ethos

Halloween history and ethnography.