Kickers: Expressions - SAPIENS

Anthropology Magazine

The photograph features a person with a hearing aid sitting next to a person smiling on a couch. They face each other and communicate using sign language.

How Deaf and Hearing Friends Co-Navigate the World

An illustration in color shows ancient humans painting mammoths on a cave wall.

Did Neanderthals Make Art?

A person with dark curly hair and a person wearing a black hat lean through and over blue metal bars and use white tools to flatten and smooth painted fabric on a concrete wall.

Crystal Worl’s Countermural Tells a Different History of Alaska

A person with a shaved head wearing a grey long-sleeved shirt holds a black, purple, white, and yellow striped flag over their head.

Why English Might Let Go of “He” and “She”

A comic strip colored in blue, green, and red tones.

How People Actually Use Their Smartphones

A painting of five framed portraits on a wall and young children in color interacting with older people who are black and white.

Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora

A black stuffed figure with large eyes and a wide mouth wearing a black hat lies beside a black, white, and yellow comic book on a dark wooden table.

Can Indigenous Language Comics Save a Mother Tongue?

A painting of five framed portraits on a wall and young children in color interacting with older people who are black and white.

Five Questions About Writing the African Diaspora

Two young people sit facing each other with paper on their laps. Behind them are large photos and a large grey storyboard.

How Migrant Filmmakers Practice Archival Activism

Ochirbatyn Dashbalbar

Grass Trilogy

anthropological poems

Why Poetry + Anthropology?

In 1972, a Māori activist group gathered more than 30,000 signatures on this petition asking the New Zealand government to introduce Māori language classes in schools.

How to Resurrect Dying Languages

Harmony - Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong hold up their hands to represent their five demands for the city’s government.

When Harmony Silences Resistance

Guaraní - Vikipetã

Can This Indigenous Language Thrive in a Digital Age?

This illustration represents how Indigenous peoples around the globe, as highlighted by depictions of a few specific communities, are striving to keep endangered languages alive as dynamic sources of cultural identity.

Why Are Languages Worth Preserving?

Bhutanese Nepali performers—including Shyam “San” Rai at center—pose at a cultural festival.

How Names Tell Stories of Loss and Resilience