The Pain Just Stays in Your Head

On Chicago’s decades-long history of police torture.

The Critical Bite of Cultural Relativism

The pioneers of cultural anthropology taught not just how to study other cultures, but how to criticize their own.

The structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss is in many ways still with us.

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