Childeish Ideas
What happens when you’re the most famous archaeologist in the world and you’re past your prime?
Who’s Afraid of Sally Binford?
While the name Sally Binford means little to most people, saying the name “Binford” to an anthropologist or an archaeologist is its own kind of dog whistle. That’s because in the late 1960’s, Sally and Lewis Binford, her then-husband and colleague at the University of Chicago, were two key proponents of a radical paradigm shift in archaeology. In a series of articles and a book entitled New Perspectives in Archaeology, the Binfords were a driving force behind a movement known as “The New Archaeology.”
The Cousins of Sarah Baartman: Anthropology, Race, and the ‘Curvaceous’ Venuses of the Ice Age
And the Rest Is History: A Conversation with Anthropologist Sidney Mintz
Sid Mintz was a professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University who wrote about slavery, labor, markets, and food in books such as Sweetness and Power (1985) and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom (1996).