Cara Ocobock

Mar 15, 2024 | anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Cara Ocobock |Sarah Lacy

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Feb 7, 2024 | northcentralpa.com | Sarah Lacy |Cara Ocobock

Prehistoric men hunted; prehistoric women gathered. At least this is the standard narrative written by and about men to the exclusion of women. The idea of “Man the Hunter” runs deep within anthropology, convincing people that hunting made us human, only men did the hunting, and therefore evolutionary forces must only have acted upon men. Such depictions are found not only in media, but in museums and introductory anthropology textbooks, too.

Jan 16, 2024 | sapiens.org | Toiba Naseema |Christine Weeber |Sarah Lacy |Cara Ocobock

SAPIENS’ 2023 poet-in-residence questions where peace of mind can come from for Indian-occupied Kashmir. If you missed the introduction to “A Long Road Ahead,” you can find it here.

Jan 10, 2024 | sapiens.org | Rui Diogo |Bridget Alex |Sarah Lacy |Cara Ocobock

✽Marrying more than one person constitutes a crime across most of the Americas and Europe. But in countries including Mali, Gambia, and Nigeria, more than a quarter of the population lives in polygamous households. Survey the sex lives of Homo sapiens, and you’ll find couples, throuples, harems, and other arrangements of lovers. Fidelity, adultery, and ethically non-monogamous unions. How could one species have evolved myriad ways to mate? Concerning sex, what is natural for us humans?

Dec 1, 2023 | thehindu.com | Cara Ocobock |Sarah Lacy

Prehistoric men hunted; prehistoric women gathered. At least this is the standard narrative written by and about men to the exclusion of women. The idea of “Man the Hunter” runs deep within anthropology, convincing people that hunting made us human, only men did the hunting, and therefore evolutionary forces must only have acted upon men. Such depictions are found not only in media, but in museums and introductory anthropology textbooks, too.