Anthropologists love Scientific American

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In its 166+ year history, Scientific American has changed and evolved in different directions many times. There were periods when it was a densely-packed, jargony, almost unreadable publication aiming for a small niche of super-geek readers, and there were periods (like the last couple of decades, fortunately for all of us) when the magazine went back to its original mission of being a premier popular science magazine, accessible to readers of all backgrounds. There were times when technology, engineering, patents and “hard sciences” dominated its pages, and also better times (like now, just look around!), when the publication adopted a broad coverage of all areas of science.

But no matter what period it was, people have read (or tried to read, or pretended they could read and understand) the magazine in its entirety, regardless of the subject matter. This includes some readers who themselves were prominent leaders in their scientific disciplines. And sometimes they’d say something about that reading habit in public. Here are two examples from anthropology.

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