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Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
Table of contents
Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
Connections and Conflicts With Seals in a Scottish Archipelago

An environmental anthropologist investigates deep-time, mythical, and contemporary relations between seals and Orkney Islanders. SEAL SONG One gray afternoon, I…

Dreamscapes of Refusal: A Chorus

SAPIENS poet-in-residence for 2025 listens to a chorus of dreams in her field recordings from Kashmir. ✽ “Dreaming has a…

Reclaiming Tanzania’s Deep Past—Together

A U.S. archaeologist reflects on the power of community-driven research in Tanzania to include local voices and reshape how the…

Archaeological Fiction and a Scientist’s Dilemma

An archaeologist reflects on the role of fiction, such as The Clan of the Cave Bear, to imagine the deep…

Listening to Murmurs

Through her field recordings, SAPIENS poet-in-residence for 2025 listens to murmurings of clay, debris, and time in Kashmir’s Tsaar. ✽…

The Tangled Roots of Corruption in Today’s South Africa

A legal scholar turned anthropologist connects South Africa’s colonial and apartheid past to corruption she witnesses while shadowing parole officers.…

What’s Behind a Michelin Star?

As judges scout new restaurants to evaluate in U.S. cities, an anthropologist investigates the elite, Eurocentric history of the Michelin…

Five Questions for Agustín Fuentes

In this live discussion with Agustín Fuentes about his new book, Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary,…

How Women Shaped Human Evolution Through Food Processing

An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of food processing and dietary diversity—practices often led by women—that were just as crucial…

Snapshots of Losing Jenna

An anthropologist offers a lens on how losses from war dramatically alter a family—and a society. ✽ BEFORE I FORMALLY…