SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

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Sex, Lies, and Science Wars

After Derek Freeman publishes Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, the controversy heats up. Op-eds, documentaries, censure by a leading anthropological organization, and even a debate on the Phil Donahue Show all follow.  Was Margaret Mead, “the grandmother of the world,” wrong? Or was Freeman?  At stake was the heart of an academic discipline and the nature of being human. Mead’s own daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, launches a defense, and other anthropologists weigh in too. 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?