Imagine you were tasked with the job of crafting a new zoo exhibit featuring that least exotic of species—our own, Homo sapiens. Suppose the zoo already had enclosures featuring orangutans, ...

ANTH copy 39088015621592 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of William H. Plank. AFA copy 39088019023035 is a gift from Janet Stanley. The specificity of the human zoo : histories ...

Visiting a zoo might have been an exciting experience to get up close and personal with a wild animal, but some zoos are so horrific they should be called prisons! Check out today's insane new video ...

After a stay in Leukerbad, James Baldwin affirmed: "From all available evidence, no black man had ever set foot in this tiny Swiss village before I came. I was told before arriving that I would ...

Tomorrow, to mark the 200th anniversary of Norway’s constitution, two artists will open a human zoo in Oslo. “European Attraction Limited,” as the project is called, is actually a re-creation of a ...

Starting in the 1890s, millions of Europeans and Americans encountered “native” Africans in person for the first time in so-called “human zoos.” This strange but once popular form of “entertainment” ...