In this installment, we hear from Ghausia Ludwig, a research anthropologist who recorded a workday in April. Interested in contributing to a future installment of The Work Day? Fill out this form.

But they also show a deeper, more surprising process at work: Skin color, they say, is largely a matter of vitamins. Jablonski, now chairman of the anthropology department at the California ...

His other books include “Medusa’s Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience” (1981), which was later translated into Japanese; “The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in ...