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Payangko, or Echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi)
sapiens.org - Durba Chattaraj
After a 60-year haitus, an Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna was seen in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains. A poet-anthropologist reflects on the …
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Inside Amazon’s Union-Busting Tactics
sapiens.org - Orin Starn
An anthropologist reports on the impediments to labor organizing—and why it’s still worth trying.✽In the notoriously anti-union U.S. South, a …
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Fighting for Reproductive Rights in Retirement
sapiens.org - Rachel Howard
An anthropologist conducts research in an Arizona retirement community, where older women share hard-won insights about how limitations on sexual and …
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Can Ancient DNA Support Indigenous Histories?
sapiens.org - María Pía Tavella
A biological anthropologist reflects on how scientific research can be used to reaffirm or undermine Indigenous land ties in Argentina.✽In the early …
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Can Embracing Copies Help With Museum Restitution Cases?
sapiens.org - Pınar Durgun
Many museums are wrestling with returning looted or unethically obtained ancient objects. An archaeologist considers how a shift in public attitudes …
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Can Art Save the “Post-Apocalyptic” Salton Sea?
sapiens.org - Meredith Reifschneider
In this Mad Max–like California landscape, artists and activists are inventing renewable alternatives to the capitalist system that’s developing but …