Sapiens

MAY 28, 2024

SAPIENS’ 2024 poet-in-residence imagines a wordless conversation with a troubled figure from the past and considers legacies of marginalization during the figure’s life and in archives. as if i have not seen her only in empty documents, in archives drenched in blood. The Visit – Listen the bedroom is a chamber of whispers.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This initiative has relied heavily on archival research, including the review of local records dating back to the 19th century and collaborations with local archaeologists, divers, and fishermen. So far, the team has identified and evaluated over 40 sites of interest, many of which have been precisely relocated based on historical records.

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Sapiens

JUNE 17, 2024

Archives often render marginalized people’s histories invisible. In response to such erasure, a poet writes a letter to explore the experience of historically enslaved African and Creole women in Tanzania and Mauritius—and the ways in which they may have navigated their lives.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

Credit : Universal History Archive / Getty Images) And that’s not all that’s wrong with this map. Credit : Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images) One of the more intriguing mentions in the Book of Roger is of Irlandah-al-Kabirah (“Great Ireland”), one day’s sailing from Iceland. For starters, you’re seeing it upside-down.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Black African women in former colonial centers such as London gesture to subversive ways of communicating with those imprisoned in archives across generations. you survive. here, at the point of no return, no leaving, only arrival to a Motherland that shuns you. her cabinets of curious, trapped skins, leather hides.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you write about Blackness while trying to resist the insidious pull of cultural and racial assimilation? As Black Nordics, we live in countries that top “Happiest Nation in the World” lists yearly, lists that often make cursory mention of racial-cultural homogeneity as a key contributor to national happiness.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.” Will Neal playing fiddle being recorded by Todd and Sonkin.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The region had, and still has, a rich cultural heritage: For instance, today eight Native languages are spoken in FSM alone. Read on, from the SAPIENS archives: Requiem for a War Robot. Their descendants enjoyed a hearty diet of fish, taro, yams, breadfruit, and coconuts, and developed a thriving inter-island economy.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As an Afghan American, I often encounter perceptions that radicalization and political instability in Afghanistan are intrinsic to Afghans or Middle Eastern “culture.” But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It’s called rapid onset gender dysphoria,” Justice said, referring to a disorder described in a paper published last year in the scientific journal Archives of Sexual Behavior that has since been retracted. over Labor Day weekend, a sign shows the group’s concern about the culture of American public schools.

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