All Tomorrow's Cultures

In 1866, Alfred Russel Wallace sent a breathless letter to his friend and colleague, Thomas Huxley, inviting Huxley to joi...

In 1866, Alfred Russell Wallace proclaimed a “new branch of anthropology” premised on the Spiritualist movement that was then exploding...

  ( The Somerset onion , from the Pitt Rivers Museum) In his lyrical essay, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (1982), Marsha...