While the magazine has closed, its living archive endures—open to all and preserving the many ideas, voices, and discoveries that deepen our understanding of what it means to be human.
The speaker of a poem refuses linguistic erasure, passing secret notes with untranslated lines in Korean—keeping the language alive during…
Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in EcuadorIn the Ecuadorian Amazon, an anthropologist explores how the Shuar people are betting on dragon fruit cultivation to reclaim economic…
Translation NotesA translator’s notes are refashioned into a poem calling for justice for Indigenous peoples in the Philippines displaced by a…
Home-Carrying—A Repatriation Trip to Vanuatu 100 Years in the MakingAn anthropologist and poet reflects on a journey of return that tells a larger story about human connection, acts of…
Best of SAPIENS 2024Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights and deeply reported concerns to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine. ✽…
How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s HealthAnthropologists and local activists in Indonesia and Peru uncover links between water scarcity and gendered violence, and work together to…
Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic FreedomEducators and students critical of Israel’s war on Gaza face censorship, harassment, and dismissal. An anthropologist who researches coexistence between…
Inside Amazon’s Union-Busting TacticsAn anthropologist reports on the impediments to labor organizing—and why it’s still worth trying. ✽ In the notoriously anti-union U.S.…
Fighting for Reproductive Rights in RetirementAn anthropologist conducts research in an Arizona retirement community, where older women share hard-won insights about how limitations on sexual…
Can Art Save the “Post-Apocalyptic” Salton Sea?In this Mad Max–like California landscape, artists and activists are inventing renewable alternatives to the capitalist system that’s developing but…
