Though natural selection favours self-interest, humans are extraordinarily good at cooperating with one another. Why?

Dutch scientist Leonie Cornips has become fascinated with how cows communicate. But can this really be called 'language'?

Cornips believed that cows possessed the intellect and social behaviours to be useful research subjects for linguists. As a ...

Authoring a book or editing a volume are among the most consequential professional achievements in an academic's life. In ...

In search of Buddhist conscience (Baudha Hurdasakshiya Soya) (Part II of this article appeared in The Island on Monday – 03) Tissa Ranasinghe’s and Gananath’s Kannagi Gananath’s Pattini book has a ...

which will be a written assignment (such as an essay or report). Summative assessment will be a 2500-word written piece where students will apply concepts and perspectives in social anthropology to ...

Sociologist and anthropologist Nir Avieli breaks down these meanings in his culinary ethnography on the Tết rice cakes in Hoi An. For example, the square and round ... among some Vietnamese scholars.

Black History Month Theme is “African Americans and Labor," which highlights the impact of Black people’s work and how it ...

The scholar, poet, and filmmaker devoted her life to sketching out a revisionist historiography of resistance in Latin ...

Virginia Woolf’s classic Mrs Dalloway was revolutionary for its challenge to the novel form and its representation of time.