PopAnth — Hot Buttered Humanity

Popular anthropology for everyone. Exploring the familiar and the strange, demystifying and myth busting human culture, biology and behaviour in all times and places. Myths, music, art, archaeology, language, food, festivals, fun.
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PopAnth — Hot Buttered Humanity
Popular anthropology for everyone.
Production Team
Word-smiths

Editors

Gawain Lynch

Gawain Lynch

PopAnth's inventor. Code ninja and knowledge-sharing visionary who leaps disciplinary divides in a single bound! "Nani gigantum humeris insidentes" Full bio »

Erin B. Taylor

Erin B. Taylor

Managing Editor. Hangs out in the Caribbean asking endless questions about financial culture and mobile phone use Full bio »

Abby Baker

Abby Baker

Section Editor for The Human Body. Consulting internationally, studying dance possession in Mali Full bio »

Community Advisors

Keith Hart

Keith Hart

Economic anthropologist with a young family and a virtual social life, plus a hideaway on the Indian Ocean Full bio »

Community Cohorts

Agustín Fuentes

Agustín Fuentes

Agustín Fuentes chases monkeys in Asia and explores the lives of early humans to challenge our assumptions about human nature. Full bio »

Erin B. Taylor

Erin B. Taylor

Managing Editor. Hangs out in the Caribbean asking endless questions about financial culture and mobile phone use Full bio »

Abby Baker

Abby Baker

Section Editor for The Human Body. Consulting internationally, studying dance possession in Mali Full bio »

Edward F. Fischer

Edward F. Fischer

When not writing or teaching, Ted Fischer spends his time developing Maní+, a snack used to treat malnutrition in Guatemala Full bio »

Jolynna Sinanan

Jolynna Sinanan

Post-doctoral researcher in Anthropology (social networks in Trinidad), PhD in Development Studies (post-conflict development in Cambodia), former comedian. Really. Full bio »