Short stories tagged with Anthropology

Listing 7 stories.

A French detective adopts an Indigenous Brazilian boy interested in anthropology.

A college student and his former dissertain advisor use their knowledge of anthropology to survive the zombie apocalypse and theorize about the evolution of humans and zombies.

Lou, a middle-aged record producer, brings his two kids, Rolph (11) and Charlie (14), and his new girlfriend Mindy (23) to a safari run by an old friend in Kenya.

On an alien world, a colony of humans has evolved to reproduce with one mother and many fathers. After delaying for years, one young woman finally chooses three fathers for her baby, but her desire for freedom draws her into the orbit of the post-human anthropologists who have come from the stars to study this quaint biological mating ritual.

When an out-of-work anthropologist’s toxically masculine, aquarist father falls ill with breast cancer, the son must take care of his father by covering his work at the Detroit Zoo. In doing so, he learns to care for his father’s best friends, the amphibians in his exhibit.

After an esteemed professor of anthropology writes a memoir detailing her family's experience during the Holocaust, an elderly woman reaches out, insisting that she is the professor's long-lost cousin.

An old archaeologist studying the southwestern United States has a way of making spectacular finds. When he is about to be ousted from his university position by the younger generation, he decides to take his fate into his own hands and leave the physical world behind.