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These are the “culture-bound syndromes”: mental illnesses that psychiatrists officially acknowledge occur only within a particular society. Depending on whom you ask, the notion that some cultures have their own ways of going crazy is either the ultimate in cultural sensitivity or the ultimate in Western condescension. (...) To these critics, *the very notion of a “culture-bound illness” is an outdated relic from the days of European empires*. 
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Two masks found in a grave during excavations in the central Anatolian province of Eskişehir’s Şarhöyük-Dorylaion Necropolis site are expected to shed light on ancient culture. The masks date back to 1 A.D.
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Technology is frequently examined as though it were the reason for its own being, a kind of byte-driven tautology or spectacularly dry religious sect. But technology is a means to address questions.
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The Ashaninka are one of the largest indigenous groups in South America, their ancestral homelands ranging from Brazil to Peru.
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Power -- defined as the ability to influence others -- makes people think differently. For North Americans, a feeling of power leads to thinking in a focused and analytical way, which may be beneficial when pursuing personal goals.
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An analysis of sperm whale clicks finds a that sounds vary by clan, not genetics.
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How symbolic language drives collective learning and how this is one of the truly differentiating aspects of human beings relative to the rest of the animal ...
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The Future has stalled. Sure, some snazzy new gadgets came out this year, but all the Next Big Things are still just over the horizon. Neal Stephenson and Peter Thiel both have depressing articles trying to pin down the culprit for our technological stagnation.
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As the Byzantine Empire was in decline, Islam began to dominate the Middle East, with a remarkable culture that showed a command of technology and an appreciation of art and decoration, research by archaeologists shows.
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Culture is not a trait that is unique to humans. By studying orangutan populations, a team of researchers headed by anthropologist Michael Krützen from the University of Zurich has demonstrated that great apes also have the ability to learn socially and pass them down through a great many generations. The researchers provide the first evidence that culture in humans and great apes has the same evolutionary roots, thus answering the contentious question as to whether variation in behavioral patterns in orangutans are culturally driven, or caused by genetic factors and environmental influences.
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It's quite subtle. Nearly imperceptible. Not where we might think of looking first: how we see ourselves—our identity—shapes our future as a species. So let's tell a story about ourselves—let's build a cultural identity that moves us to dream bigger, learn faster.... go places, evolve into something even better. The HUMAN Project on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehumanproject.me
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According to a group of historians and anthropologists who have been studying several tribes of people in South America, cultural practices have led to evolved physical traits for one tribe that has caused them to have a unique appearance compared other tribes in the area.
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Robots and mythical creatures battle each other in cartoon-like drawings spread across a table. A crowd gathers around to take a closer look at the vibrantly colored images from the pages of the award-winning comic book Rocketo.
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Images of finds from the Must Farm quarry, Whittlesey, near Peterborough. Archaeologists have found one of the most significant later Bronze Age hoards ever unearthed in the United Kingdom.
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In fact, this conception of the mind is heavily influenced by a particular (Western) cultural background. Other cultures assign different characteristics and abilities to the psychological aspects of personhood. Wierzbicka (2005) delves into this problem in detail. She argues that speakers of a particular language make assumptions about what must be universal based on their own ability to imagine doing without a certain concept. Important cross-cultural differences in meaning become lost in translation.
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Academics from the Universities of Oxford and Warwick have shed new light on the history of interactions between the classical world, Africa and the Middle East.
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Brains | We know that our species is unique, but it can be surprisingly hard to pinpoint what exactly makes us so.
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Thanks to a new model created by an international research group, it is now possible to predict which European countries are more likely to become united or which are more likely to break up.
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A team of anthropologists have shown that orangutans may have the ability to learn socially and pass these learnings down through generations -- evidence that culture in humans and great apes has the same evolutionary roots...
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