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Chip Colwell

Traditions of Burying Our Dead

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This is not your typical, traditional talk during the holidays…

Chip Colwell is Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He has authored and edited 11 books, and his essays have been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, and other corners of the Internet. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Sapiens.org, an online magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation about anthropological thinking and discoveries. Video by Dave Daniels and Nicole Howe. Edited by Henry Huang

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Chip Colwell is Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He has authored and edited 11 books, and his essays have been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, and other corners of the Internet. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Sapiens.org, an online magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation about anthropological thinking and discoveries.

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