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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...
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...
The gold industry, alongside nation-states, has marginalized the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector for decades, but now things s...
Milpa is an ancestral way of farming in Mexico and other regions of Mesoamerica that involves growing an assortment of different crops in a...
In the last two decades, an unprecedented wave of Chinese investment and migration to Africa has transformed many economies on the continent...
While researching the history of parole in South Africa, a lawyer and anthropologist discovers the origins of the N2 road, which she drives...
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...
In this episode, social anthropologist Luis Alfredo Briceño González talks about his experiences as a foreign researcher in Chile. During hi...
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...
Since its emergence in 1960s Harlem, the LGBTQ+ “ ballroom scene ” has expanded into a transnational subculture. For outsiders, understandin...
The United Fruit Company was a U.S. multinational corporation and at one time, the largest landholder in Central America. To maintain author...
Culture is a force that makes us who we are. It drives social interactions and relationships, shapes beliefs and politics, ignites imaginati...
Host Myra Flynn unpacks one soul food recipe: collard greens, with local and world-renowned chefs, and even her own mother. Together they ex...
Can museums and archaeology harm the dead? An Indigenous archaeologist from Brazil challenges traditional approaches to studying human bones...
As a form of popular culture, comics have provided humor, action, and entertainment to readers of all ages and across generations. But comic...
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...
María Pía Tavella is an Argentine biological anthropologist and science writer. In conversation with host Eshe Lewis, María shares a snapsho...
Discussions about the impacts of dams around the world are often focused on the displacement of communities due to the creation of reservoir...
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...
What role does gossip play in human societies? In this episode, Bridget Alex and Emily Sekine, editors at SAPIENS magazine, chat with host E...
Today most people around the world are using digital gadgets. These enable us to communicate instantaneously, pursue our daily work, and ent...
Many of our primate relatives use tools. How do they use them? And why?And what do these skills mean for understanding tools across the anim...
Why do people migrate from one country to another, leaving behind friends, family, and familiarity in search of another life elsewhere? And...
At the Abri du Maras site in southern France, archaeologists recovered twisted plant fibers dating back 50,000 years, suggesting Neanderthal...
These days, a mention of cyborgs often conjures images from a science fiction future: robot arms and legs, infrared eyes, and other modified...
Anuli Akanegbu is the host of BLK IRL, an audio docuseries. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in cultural anthropology at New York University, c...
Since the dawn of our species, the ability to make things has made us who we are. Human-made objects, large and small, have enabled and mold...
Hosts Kate Ellis and Doris Tulifau explore the perils and possibilities of the kind of fieldwork that defined Margaret Mead as an anthropolo...
We turn from Margaret Mead’s and Derek Freeman’s conflicting accounts of adolescence and sexuality in Samoa to more stories from Samoans the...
After Derek Freeman publishes Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth , the controversy heats up. Op-eds...
SAPIENS is happy to present this bonus episode from Lost Women of Science about another path-breaking thinker. In the 1960s, a Black home ec...
The first missionary arrived in Samoa in 1832, almost a century before Margaret Mead set out to study the culture of the islands. By the tim...
In January 1983, the front page of The New York Times read: “New Samoa Book Challenges Margaret Mead’s Conclusions.” Anthropologist Derek Fr...
Sparked by a provocative encounter in American Samoa, Doris Tulifau explores modern-day Samoan attitudes toward Margaret Mead. With a mix of...
In 1925, Margaret Mead set sail for American Samoa. What she claimed she found there—teenagers free to explore and express their sexuality—i...
Being a teenager can be hard. Very hard. Our hosts Kate Ellis and Doris Tulifau recount the tough parts from their adolescence to ask whethe...
This special SAPIENS podcast season tells the story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead’s epic life and controversial research to explore...
The chart-topping and Signal Award-winning podcast “Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant ” has returned for a brand new season. Produced by Na...
Archaeologists around the world have long unearthed skulls with holes in them. But they were usually dismissed as natural accidents—the resu...
The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature is an award-winning, international radio and podcast series. Free to everyone, this series...
Outside/In from New Hampshire Public Radio is a show about the natural world and how we use it. The show combines solid reporting and long-f...
Deven Grey, a young, isolated mother in Alabama, reached a point of no return on December 12, 2017. She shot and killed her boyfriend, John...
When archaeologists excavate, they have some idea of what they will find in the ground. But in 2016, a team of archaeologists from the Unive...
Aneho is a little historic West African town that is disappearing due to coastal erosion. But locals defy the sea and continue to live on th...
Julio Tiwiram is a famous shaman in southeast Amazonian Ecuador. He is also a leading political figure among the Shuar people of Bomboiza. G...
The world over people live with plants. Whether it’s in apartment bedrooms or backyards, it’s hard to find a human who doesn’t have some rel...
Anyone who is in prison has been charged for a crime by a prosecutor. The charges are important because they determine someone’s punishment....
Jeri Hutton Green is a mother, daughter, and advocate for survivors of domestic violence and homicide in Baltimore, Maryland. Her journey as...
“Prime harvest”—that’s how one early 20th-century explorer described his collection of Icelandic human skulls. But why did he “harvest” thos...
Being human is complicated. We require food and shelter. We have histories to contend with. We create rituals to control fate. We steal. We...
Today, we're sharing a teaser from our friends at Whetstone Magazine. They've started something called the Whetstone Radio Collective (WRC)....