What Parsnips Taught Me About Nature
One anthropologist’s research on Community Supported Agriculture—which saw him wrestling with parsnips and talking to leeks—spurs thoughts on closing the gap between Western urban life and the natural world.
What Parsnips Taught Me About Nature
Indigenous
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The FBI’s Repatriation of Stolen Heritage
When the bureau’s Art Theft Program teamed up with a cultural anthropologist to investigate one man’s private collection, they began a yearslong project to return cultural objects and human remains to their rightful homes.
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Is Celebrity Attention Helping or Hurting Amazonian Peoples?
As stars around the world petition Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to protect Indigenous peoples from the COVID-19 pandemic, anthropologists debate whether the call for action reproduces longstanding racist claims.
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Rethinking Easter Island’s Historic “Collapse”
Controversial new archaeological research casts doubt on a classic theory of this famous island's societal collapse.
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Why Capitalize “Indigenous”?
The Associated Press Stylebook and The Chicago Manual of Style do not capitalize the term Indigenous when it is used to refer to people. But SAPIENS does. The editorial team explains why.
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Yoik
Like smoky spirals, two cultures weave together in a SAPIENS contest-winning poem by an anthropologist who worked with Sámi reindeer herders in the Arctic Circle.