SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

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We Need to Tell Our Own Stories

Sparked by a provocative encounter in American Samoa, Doris Tulifau explores modern-day Samoan attitudes toward Margaret Mead. With a mix of voices and opinions, we encounter three loud ideas around Mead’s work, ultimately dropping us at the doorstep of Derek Freeman’s central critique about Samoan culture and society. Season 6 of the SAPIENS podcast was co-produced by PRX and SAPIENS, and made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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  Introducing: Homegoings

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  The Ancient Child Who's Changing Archaeology

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  Comics As a Medium for Women’s Rights

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  Smartphones Are Bicycles For Our Minds

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  When Scientists Take to the Streets

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  A Dam’s Downstream Consequences

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  Why Do We Eat at Funerals?

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  Chatter That Matters

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  The Problems of Digital Evidence in Terrorism Trials

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  Learning from Handy Primates

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  Moving Through Deaf Worlds

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  Untangling the World’s First-Known String

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  In Search for the First Cyborg

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  Black Influencers Beyond the Screens

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  Cultures of Technology: Season 7 Trailer

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  Can We Understand One Another?