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Mask, ritual and fertility

Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.

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Seeds for the future

Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.

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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians

Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.

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The history of brainwashing

Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.

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  • Physical Anthropology of Semites and Sumerians. Sumerian types. Jastrow.
  • Darwin : anthropology.
  • American journal of physical anthropology.
  • Physical Anthropology of Semitic Peoples. 1 &2 Sumerian Type: Head of Godea. 3 Sumerian type. 4 Sybian (African or Nubian Type).
  • Palæolithic man and terramara settlements in Europe : being the Munro lectures in anthropology and prehistoric archæology in connection with the University of Edinburgh, delivered during February and March 1912 / by Robert Munro.
  • University of Aberdeen : the Anatomical and Anthropological Society : 1903-1904 : [membership card].
  • University of Aberdeen : the Anatomical and Anthropological Society : 1903-1904 : [membership card].
  • Dr Fossil, an evolutionist, coming up against an interested couple's misguided views, at an anthropological society meeting. Wood engraving by W. Mackay, 1873.
  • Three allegorical personifications of womankind. Coloured halftone, 1898, after A. Vignola, 1897.
  • Histoire naturelle du genre humain ... / [J.-J. Virey].
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