An anthropologist delves into the archives to uncover her family’s early 20th-century experiences with Catholic-run Irish industrial schools—institutions later revealed to be rife with child abuse.
The SAPIENS editorial team looks back at the year through an anthropological lens—and closes with a roundup of some of our favorite pieces published in the magazine in 2021.
An anthropologist explores whether the qualities fathers acquire though caregiving shifts their understandings of manhood.
Great apes provide a window into the story of human evolution—and that’s one more reason to protect them.
The 1950s Hollywood movie The Bridge on the River Kwai, about a Japanese POW camp during World War II, nearly contained a fascinating side story about a dedicated archaeologist prisoner. Hendrik Robert van Heekeren deserves the spotlight.
An anthropologist dives deeply into how “medical aid-in-dying” is transforming the ethics and aesthetics of death.
