Geoengineering plans to save Arctic ice tend to treat technology as a means for asserting human control over the environment. Instead, we should develop human-nonhuman partnerships to tackle climate change.

The pandemic has made visible the vulnerabilities that many undocumented immigrants in the U.S. face on a daily basis.

Dogs on Native American reservations can be dangerous, but they have a long history and traditional role in many Indigenous communities. Remembering that is key to avoiding future violence.

An anthropologist’s poem crafts a dream of freedom, peace, and joyous celebration for Black folks who have died as a result of anti-Black and anti-queer violence.

Two researchers argue that India’s large-scale tribal boarding schools revive features of 19th- and 20th-century boarding schools in North America and elsewhere that sought to strip Indigenous peoples of their families, languages, and cultural identities.

An Ethiopian-born biological anthropologist and father dissects the “myth of race” and reflects on his own deepening understanding of racism in the U.S.

An anthropologist muses on what her career and child have taught her about gender stereotypes and fluidity.

People’s perceptions of scars—from ritual scarification to mastectomy marks—reveal biases about gender, character, and more.

SAPIENS supports and adopts the recent change made by many publications to capitalize Black in recognition of the significance of a person or group’s identity—yet, as an anthropology magazine, we must dive deeper into the “myth of race.”

A recent panel discussion encouraged scholars from across the U.S. to consider the experiences and contributions of Black people in this discipline.