Ask SAPIENS
The Power of Images
Selecting art for the magazine often raises sticky anthropological questions about ethics, representation, and storytelling.
SAPIENS
Features
Heritage Stewardship in Indigenous and Black Communities
This webinar panel explores how Indigenous and Black activists, scholars, and community organizers serve as leaders in the preservation of their own heritage.
Culture Lab
Did Processed Foods Make Us Human?
Experimental archaeologist Bill Schindler’s globe-trotting research has led him to champion a diet based on humanity’s long history of inventive food preparation techniques, from nose-to-tail butchery to sourdough bread.
Podcast
Moments of Resilience Amid a Pandemic
SAPIENS podcast host Chip Colwell discusses resilience among African American communities with Melanie Adams, of the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum.
Field Trips
The Evolution of Comfort Food
An archaeologist considers the history and biology of what defines a taste of home.
Review
What’s Left Unsaid When a Language Dies
Deep in Papua New Guinea, the speakers of Tayap have stopped using their native tongue. In A Death in the Rainforest, an anthropologist recounts his journey over three decades to find out why.