In SAPIENS’ final year of publishing new stories, the magazine honors 10 standout contributions that carried anthropology into the hearts and minds of ...

To move beyond conclusions drawn from the world one knows, researchers must look at human-animal relationships more broadly. At Oxford, the ...

Contrary to official claims about the success of Islamic “rehabilitation” for trans people, I never heard any trans women say the programs “corrected” ...

Australian political scientist Carol Bacchi argues that what we propose to do about a problem reveals what we think the problem is. When U.K. public ...

By dawn’s first light, as devotees arrived with offerings of bananas and mangoes, a wide-eyed, spindly-legged calf would have begun his transformation ...

For more than a century, researchers have tried to draw a clean map of Homo sapiens origins on the African continent. Some models pointed to eastern Africa ...

✽ Growing up in the atheistic milieu of China’s Cultural Revolution, my dad has always believed that death is the end. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Some accounts credit the Ming dynasty voyages of the admiral Zheng He (1371–1433) for bolstering this trade in later ...

Padi Nyawa Urang i.golden—brown—gently—bowingrustling—reaching—ricelets wind run through their calm.stroke the seeds and sow the soil, bury your ...

In the house once occupied by soldierslaughter echoesas three women sing Yamberzal sutures a songBanafsha, her daughter, gathers a distichand urges her ...