Protest and the Public University
Members of an encampment at a public university in New York City are on trial for felony charges. In 2024, students across the world launche...
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SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human
What makes you … you? Is it your DNA, culture, environment? SAPIENS hosts Jen Shannon, Esteban Gómez, and SAPIENS.org Editor-in-Chief Chip Colwell speak with anthropologists from around the...
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The Purification of Gold—and the Racialization of Miners
The gold industry, alongside nation-states, has marginalized the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector for decades, but now things s...
Milpa for the Future
Milpa is an ancestral way of farming in Mexico and other regions of Mesoamerica that involves growing an assortment of different crops in a...
Zambia’s Chinese Connection
In the last two decades, an unprecedented wave of Chinese investment and migration to Africa has transformed many economies on the continent...
South Africa’s Road Out of Colonialism
While researching the history of parole in South Africa, a lawyer and anthropologist discovers the origins of the N2 road, which she drives...
Ceasefire From the Earth and Sky
In existence for more than 70 years, the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is the site of the longest ceasefire in the world. What can this re...
A Venezuelan Election … in Chile
In this episode, social anthropologist Luis Alfredo Briceño González talks about his experiences as a foreign researcher in Chile. During hi...
Hunting, Gathering, and the Fluidity of Gender Roles
When it comes to the division of labor in hunter-gather societies, the stereotype is generally that men hunt and women gather. But when a re...
A Linguist’s Night at the Ball
Since its emergence in 1960s Harlem, the LGBTQ+ “ ballroom scene ” has expanded into a transnational subculture. For outsiders, understandin...
Cementing the Past
The United Fruit Company was a U.S. multinational corporation and at one time, the largest landholder in Central America. To maintain author...
Where Cultures Collide: Season 8 Trailer
Culture is a force that makes us who we are. It drives social interactions and relationships, shapes beliefs and politics, ignites imaginati...
Introducing: Homegoings
Host Myra Flynn unpacks one soul food recipe: collard greens, with local and world-renowned chefs, and even her own mother. Together they ex...
The Ancient Child Who's Changing Archaeology
Can museums and archaeology harm the dead? An Indigenous archaeologist from Brazil challenges traditional approaches to studying human bones...
Comics As a Medium for Women’s Rights
As a form of popular culture, comics have provided humor, action, and entertainment to readers of all ages and across generations. But comic...
Smartphones Are Bicycles For Our Minds
Where is your smartphone right now? If you’re like most smartphone users in the United States, it’s probably within a few feet of your reach...
When Scientists Take to the Streets
María Pía Tavella is an Argentine biological anthropologist and science writer. In conversation with host Eshe Lewis, María shares a snapsho...
A Dam’s Downstream Consequences
Discussions about the impacts of dams around the world are often focused on the displacement of communities due to the creation of reservoir...
Why Do We Eat at Funerals?
Funeral traditions around the world involve a range of rituals. From singing to burying to … eating. Why is food such a common practice in p...
Chatter That Matters
What role does gossip play in human societies? In this episode, Bridget Alex and Emily Sekine, editors at SAPIENS magazine, chat with host E...
The Problems of Digital Evidence in Terrorism Trials
Today most people around the world are using digital gadgets. These enable us to communicate instantaneously, pursue our daily work, and ent...