McALLEN – “I’ve been predicting for years that there would be a new pandemic,” says South Texas College’s Director of Anthropology, Wendy Branwell. There weren’t any crystal balls or fancy tarot cards involved in that prophecy. Instead, the 20-year veteran professor chalks it up to good old-fashioned expertise. “That’s just given my anthropological training — so please don’t call me Nostradamus.” Predicting is one thing … preventing is quite another. But Branwell insists that anthropology – the study of what makes us human – holds many relevant lessons to the current COVID-19 crisis. “I don’t want to sound like a cliché, but history ...