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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
Announcement

After ten years of exploring humanity in all its diversity, SAPIENS has concluded its publishing chapter.

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.

Reclaiming Collective Life in a Fractured U.S.

After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out across the U.S. to understand the nation’s deepening divides.…

A Venezuelan Election … in Chile

Unable to vote in her home country, a Venezuelan immigrant in Chile decides to organize her own mock election. In…

Tallahassee Ghazal

Using an ancient Arabic poetic form, a poet-archaeologist from Florida cycles through feelings of entrapment growing up queer in the…

David Graeber’s Lasting Influence on Anthropology and Activism

When activist and anthropologist Graeber died unexpectedly in 2020, scholars gathered to mourn him. Contributors to a resulting volume, As…

A Spacecraft’s Dance From French Guiana to Jupiter

As the European Space Agency launches its flagship mission to explore Jupiter’s moons, an anthropologist explores the gap between launch…

An Order for My Backpack and Three Stages of Nowhere

A poet moves through rituals of silence and erasure that permeate the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. “An…

My Errant Uterus

In a time of heightened threats to reproductive rights, a women’s health scholar and mother of two comes face to…

Unwrapping Operation Christmas Drop

An anthropologist takes a critical eye to a long-running holiday tradition: a U.S. military mission that drops toys and supplies…

Five Reasons Why Trump Won Again

In an effort to address toxic polarization in the U.S., an anthropologist of the “Trumpiverse” explains MAGA supporters’ thinking in…

Playing Rock, Paper, Scissors Across the Red-Blue Divide

As toxic polarization deepens in the U.S., some global conflict prevention experts are now addressing political violence at home. An…