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Best of SAPIENS 2024

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Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights and deeply reported concerns to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine. Human Rights Archived Haints By Alma Simba SAPIENS 2024 poet-in-residence conjures the voices of those imprisoned in archives.

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Call for Pitches: Care

Anthropology News

How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations? Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bite—low on jargon, high on storytelling—or compelling photo essays or multimedia pieces. How do we care for ourselves and others?

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Making Anthropological Poetry Reel

Sapiens

Students were free to choose their poems from the dozens that have been featured at the magazine and to create a social media post that could be published. To avoid stereotypes about Ethiopia, we used imagery that was inclusive—from archival to modern and from urban to landscape.

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Chrome Can: Interactive, Non-linear Stories

Dr. Shannon Doak

Overall, a better learning environment and culture is formed.” The difference between hypertext and a linear story, the kind found in books and magazines, is that it allows the reader to have some measure of agency. The teacher can see more clearly what students know and this can help the teacher reach more students.

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A Poetics of Liberation: An Imagined Archive

Sapiens

A Tanzanian historian and poet conjures alternative engagements with Black African women who were marginalized by violent colonial histories and imprisoned in the archives. As the 2024 poet-in-resident at the magazine, she imaginatively reaches for new possibilities. The archive was a burial site.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.”

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“Charette and Jules Verne”

Life and Landscapes

This is “Extraordinary Voyages, t he Magazine of the North American Jules Verne Society” , Volume 31, Number 2, February 2025 It includes my article about “Charette and Jules Verne.” And so we dive into NAJVS archives and their fabulous Palik Series of early Jules Verne translations edited by Brian Taves [1959-2019].

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