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Seattle police and Black Lives Matter activists at a 2015 demonstration.

Legislative caucuses are off limits to the press and public, including anthropologists.

State Sen. Andy Hill, a prototypical Washington legislator: white, male, well-educated and well to do. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Laws about taxing or not taxing online sales are an example of a cultural invention that dictates the way we view and behave in the "real" world.

Facial expressions and posture send signals about relationships and power dynamics.

An anthropologist in the capital, studying state lawmakers in their natural habitat.

A refinery on Fidalgo Island near Anacortes (2008).

Empty coal cars flank Bakken Oil tankers at the Port of Everett.

From the start, BP has underestimated the spill and failed in its responsibilities to deal with the Gulf catastrophe.

Timberline High School has three students in the August Wilson competition, Symphony Canady, Xavier Evans, and Aubrey Taylor, who happen to be the only African-American students in the Seattle finals.