SAPIENS’ 2025 poet-in-residence situates her listening in Kashmir and Germany during and after her fieldwork, contextualizing her contributions to SAPIENS…
Sounding the BorderAn anthropologist-poet listens to echoes of laughter and other sounds of crossings in Kashmir. In the house once occupied by…
The Sacred Heartbeat at Houston PrideAn anthropologist participates in the Houston Pride Parade, offering dance, music, and prayer with others to counter intensifying oppression faced…
Dreamscapes of Refusal: A ChorusSAPIENS poet-in-residence for 2025 listens to a chorus of dreams in her field recordings from Kashmir. ✽ “Dreaming has a…
The Cost of Cutting Anthropology Out of U.S. National ParksA former National Park Service anthropologist reflects on the vital role of cultural anthropology to the agency’s mission—and what might…
Listening to MurmursThrough her field recordings, SAPIENS poet-in-residence for 2025 listens to murmurings of clay, debris, and time in Kashmir’s Tsaar. ✽…
An [un]Heroic JourneyA Tanzanian poet unseats the illusionist tale of the mission museum of the Archabbey of St. Ottilien in Germany. ✽…
Forest as Kin and Pantry in the HimalayasIn the Sikkim and Kalimpong Himalayas in Northeast India, supply chains are often interrupted by changing monsoon systems that damage…
How Cultural Knowledge Sustained Desert Farms in the Ancient AndesAn archaeologist who studies past farming practices in the north coast of Peru argues these offer models for navigating current…
EarwormA poet-anthropologist listens to an accidental field recording from Kashmir: What might be dismissed as noise becomes a way to…
