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  • Protest and the Public University

    June 3, 2025 · 30 min

    Members of an encampment at a public university in New York City are on trial for felony charges. In 2024, students across the world launched encampments to challenge university financial ties to Israel in response to the genocide against…

  • The Purification of Gold—and the Racialization of Miners

    May 27, 2025 · 35 min

    The gold industry, alongside nation-states, has marginalized the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector for decades, but now things seem to be changing. The industry has realized that engaging with the ASM sector could be more…

  • Milpa for the Future

    May 20, 2025 · 25 min

    Milpa is an ancestral way of farming in Mexico and other regions of Mesoamerica that involves growing an assortment of different crops in a single area without synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. This provides people in the region with a…

  • Zambia’s Chinese Connection

    May 13, 2025 · 30 min

    In the last two decades, an unprecedented wave of Chinese investment and migration to Africa has transformed many economies on the continent. But this has also provoked a storm of controversy, as some criticize the situation as…

  • South Africa’s Road Out of Colonialism

    May 6, 2025 · 29 min

    While researching the history of parole in South Africa, a lawyer and anthropologist discovers the origins of the N2 road, which she drives everyday. Now interested in this highway’s history, she explores how this and other roads were used…

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  • Ceasefire From the Earth and Sky

    April 29, 2025 · 34 min

    In existence for more than 70 years, the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is the site of the longest ceasefire in the world. What can this region teach us about the long, intended—and unintended—consequences of this form of a truce? In this…

  • A Venezuelan Election … in Chile

    April 22, 2025 · 32 min

    In this episode, social anthropologist Luis Alfredo Briceño González talks about his experiences as a foreign researcher in Chile. During his fieldwork, he met Marta, a Venezuelan woman residing in an informal settlement on the outskirts…

  • Hunting, Gathering, and the Fluidity of Gender Roles

    April 15, 2025 · 38 min

    When it comes to the division of labor in hunter-gather societies, the stereotype is generally that men hunt and women gather. But when a recent study claimed that women in hunter-gather societies hunt just as much as their male…

  • A Linguist’s Night at the Ball

    April 8, 2025 · 39 min

    Since its emergence in 1960s Harlem, the LGBTQ+ “ballroom scene” has expanded into a transnational subculture. For outsiders, understanding how a ball functions can take time.  Join linguistic anthropologist Dozandri Mendoza as they “walk”…

  • Cementing the Past

    April 1, 2025 · 34 min

    The United Fruit Company was a U.S. multinational corporation and at one time, the largest landholder in Central America. To maintain authority in this part of the world, the company stamped out labor reform, collaborated with U.S.-backed…

  • Where Cultures Collide: Season 8 Trailer

    March 25, 2025 · 1 min

    Culture is a force that makes us who we are. It drives social interactions and relationships, shapes beliefs and politics, ignites imaginations, and molds identities. Cultural conflicts are at the heart of many crises facing the…

  • Introducing: Homegoings

    October 3, 2024 · 36 min

    Host Myra Flynn unpacks one soul food recipe: collard greens, with local and world-renowned chefs, and even her own mother. Together they explore how the history of a once undesirable food mimics the resilience, innovation, and…

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About the show

What makes you … you? And who tells what stories and why? In the SAPIENS podcast, listeners will hear a range of human stories: from the origins of the chili pepper to how prosecutors decide someone is a criminal to stolen skulls from Iceland. Join SAPIENS on our latest journey to explore what it means to be human.