The Problem With Abstract Threats
In this episode, anthropologists consider what the novel coronavirus reveals about how humans negotiate crises that seem too big to be real.
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What Pandemics Leave Behind
In Venice, archaeologists have uncovered the dawn of the modern quarantine—and one of our favorite modern myths.
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Police Violence and the Pandemic
An interview with anthropologist Laurence Ralph, who wrote The Torture Letters, reveals how legacies of anti-black racism connect to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Could the Coronavirus Pandemic Be Good for the Environment?
Archaeological research into environmental impacts of the Black Death in Eurasia and historic pandemics among Native Americans during European colonization may provide answers to possible impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Preppers and the Pandemic
Were preppers more prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic than others? The SAPIENS podcast turns to an anthropologist on the inside of the preppers movement to find out.
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What Does It Mean to be Human? Your Questions, Answered
The podcast's season 2 finale takes on some difficult, and sometimes funny, listener questions.