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Huh? The Valuable Role of Interjections

https://www.sapiens.org/language/linguistics-interjections-conversation-flow/

Published: April 9, 2025 10:00

Utterances like “um,” “wow,” and “mm-hmm” aren’t garbage, they keep conversations flowing. This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine… The post Huh? The Valuable Role of Interjections appeared first on SAPIENS.

A Linguist’s Night at the Ball

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/a-linguists-night-at-the-ball/

Published: April 8, 2025 14:38

Walk with a linguistic anthropologist through the sounds, politics, and fabulosity of a kiki ball in Puerto Rico. Since its… The post A Linguist’s Night at the Ball appeared first on SAPIENS.

When Calls for Vengeance Go Online

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/social-media-fuels-gang-violence/

Published: April 3, 2025 10:00

An anthropologist reckons with how digital media has changed youth gang culture dynamics—and what can be done to combat the… The post When Calls for Vengeance Go Online appeared first on SAPIENS.

A Poetics of Liberation: An Imagined Archive

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/imagined-archive-colonialism-tanzania/

Published: April 2, 2025 10:00

A Tanzanian historian and poet conjures alternative engagements with Black African women who were marginalized by violent colonial histories and… The post A Poetics of Liberation: An <em>Imagined Archive</em> appeared first on SAPIENS.

Cementing the Past

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/cementing-the-past/

Published: April 1, 2025 13:22

An anthropologist investigates the ongoing impacts of the U.S.-based United Fruit Company’s fraught 1940s preservation of an ancient Maya site… The post Cementing the Past appeared first on SAPIENS.

The Hopes and Hazards for AI in Reconstructing Ancient Worlds

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/generativeai-reconstruction-history-heritage-misrepresentations/

Published: March 26, 2025 10:00

An archaeologist explains how generative artificial intelligence has the potential to reshape our views of ancient people, arguing that a… The post The Hopes and Hazards for AI in Reconstructing Ancient Worlds appeared first on SAPIENS.

Where Cultures Collide

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/sapiens-podcast-season-eight-trailer/

Published: March 25, 2025 12:15

For the eighth season of the SAPIENS podcast, we’re meeting at a crossroads of cultures—past and present—in search of humanity’s… The post Where Cultures Collide appeared first on SAPIENS.

“Stop This Invader!”—The War on Spotted Lanternflies

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/spotted-lanternfly-eradication-racist-undertones-us/

Published: March 18, 2025 10:00

An anthropologist reflects on the racist undertones of some U.S. efforts to eradicate the spotted lanternfly, an insect from Asia… The post “Stop This Invader!”—The War on Spotted Lanternflies  appeared first on SAPIENS.

Erasure I and Erasure VI

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/erasure-i-and-erasure-vi-poems-uzma-falak/

Published: March 17, 2025 10:00

In two erasure poems, a poet-anthropologist imagines alternative futures using text from the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar, through which the… The post Erasure I and Erasure VI appeared first on SAPIENS.

How Heavy Metal Fuels Indigenous Revival in Patagonia

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/patagonian-metal-argentina-indigenous-heritage/

Published: March 11, 2025 10:00

An anthropologist plunges into the world of Patagonian heavy metal music in Argentina to explore how the genre relates to… The post How Heavy Metal Fuels Indigenous Revival in Patagonia appeared first on SAPIENS.

Tallahassee Ghazal

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/tallahassee-ghazal-poem-noland-blain/

Published: March 10, 2025 10:00

Using an ancient Arabic poetic form, a poet-archaeologist from Florida cycles through feelings of entrapment growing up queer in the… The post Tallahassee Ghazal appeared first on SAPIENS.