A profile of the anthropologist.

Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organized their societies—and hint at possibilities for our own,

The extraordinary story of two Pacific voyages of discovery a thousand years apart.

Evidence of the failure to love is everywhere around us. To contemplate what it is to love today brings us up against reefs of darkness and walls of despair.

Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there.

Last year, a 26-year-old American missionary set out to convert the world’s most isolated hunter-gatherer tribe. This is the untold story of John Chau’s mission and the tragedy that awaited him.

Almost 90 years ago, a young anthropologist was murdered in the field. The case still speaks volumes about sexual assault and how we explain it away.

A search for meaning through academics, cultural studies, and terrorism.

A voyage to North Sentinel island, home to one of the last entirely isolated populations on Earth.

How forensic anthropologist Sue Black does her job.

An ethnography.

The discovery of a new human ancestor, hidden in a hard-to-access cave.

So many theories of laughter, so many chortles left unexplained.

An anthropologist's log from field work in Papua New Guinea; an excerpt from the Kirkus Review prize winner.

"I am tired tonight. Trying to learn another language—3rd one in 18 months—probing a new set of people who but for the matches & razors would rather be left alone—it has never felt more daunting to me before. What was it B said? Something about how all we’re watching is natives toadying to the white man. Glimpses of how it really was before us are rare, if not impossible. He despairs at the deepest level that this work has no meaning. Does it? Have I been deluding myself? Are these wasted years?"

A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.

The son of an American anthropologist returns to the Amazon to reunite with his mother, an indigenous tribeswoman.