The outpouring of grief over New York’s Flaco the owl, who died recently, reveals how much attitudes toward these creatures…

As increasing numbers of pilgrims walk the Camino, a European network of historic pilgrimage routes, those who journey to “slow…

On a visit to feline-friendly Turkey, an anthropologist considers what long-standing practices of caring for cats reveal about human societies.…

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and…

A poet-anthropologist in Israel looks to his students and their surroundings, calling for “seekers of peace” to create lifelines across…

A humanities and social science doctoral student from Manipur, India, takes readers on a journey through ordinary moments interwoven with…

A biological and anthropological researcher explains how humans’ diverse ways of mating might have evolved. ✽ Marrying more than one…

Does the transition from childhood to adulthood have to be so difficult? This question sent famed anthropologist Margaret Mead to…

A famed anthropologist’s controversial research in American Samoa reveals the biggest questions about growing up and being human. This special…

In a new book, an anthropologist and father of three, including a daughter with Down syndrome, reflects on the pressures…