The Sacred Heartbeat at Houston Pride: Danza Azteca as Embodied Resistance
Amidst the rainbow flags, glitter, and disco beats of the Houston Pride Parade, a...
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Welcome to the Case Study Bank. This is a growing collection of classic and contemporary case studies, designed to provide relevant examples and ‘fodder material’ for your Mains answers. Each case study is tagged and linked to its relevant syllabus topic.”
Happy Hour in the Jungle? How Chimps’ Taste for Boozy Fruit Explains Our Own
Why do humans have such a strong, and often dangerous, attraction to alcohol? Is...
An Ancient Poison: How Lead Exposure Shaped Our Genes 2 Million Years Ago
We often think of heavy metal poisoning as a modern industrial problem. But what...
A Right Rectified or Revoked? The High Court Ruling That Shakes the Foundation of the Forest Rights Act
The Forest Rights Act (FRA) of 2006 was a revolutionary law, a constitutional promise...
An Auditory Umbilical Cord: How a Mother’s Voice Builds a Baby’s Brain
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a world of beeps, hums, and sterile...
Secrets in the Spit: How Ancient ‘Chewing Gum’ is Revealing Prehistoric Gender Roles
We think of our chewing gum as a disposable, modern habit. But what if...
The ‘Childhood First’ Hypothesis: How a 1.77-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites the Story of Our Brains
Why do human children take so maddeningly long to grow up? For decades, the...
Life’s Lost Experiment: Did the Gabon Fossils Just Rewrite the History of Everything?
The story of life on Earth has a sacred timeline, a grand narrative that...
The Praxis of Listening: How an Anthropologist Makes a Way by Remembering
In our current, often turbulent moment, how do we even begin to imagine a...
Same Village, Different Truths: A Case Study in the Scientific Method from the High Himalayas
Science is supposed to provide objective facts. A team of researchers goes to a...