Christine Weeber

Aug 5, 2024 | sapiens.org | Christine Weeber

In two poems, an anthropologist speaks to the timelessness and constant change of the minority language Griko in the Italian landscape.

Mar 28, 2024 | sapiens.org | Jennifer Kelly |Christine Weeber |Sophia Goodfriend |M. Cruz

✽What can you not unsee? I cannot unsee the reporting and images from Gaza that show a mother cradling her lifeless miracle baby who took her 580 injections to meet. Or Rania Abu Anza, another mother, holding her murdered twins that took her 10 years of in vitro fertilization to conceive. Or the children orphaned, injured, and shaking. Or the decomposing infants who had been left attached to hospital machines after their intensive care unit medical staff were forced out at Israeli gunpoint.

Feb 19, 2024 | sapiens.org | Whitney Duncan |Christine Weeber |Josh Yarden |Michael Haslam

Don’t miss out on anthropology’s insights about our world. A poet-anthropologist who has been an expert witness in asylum proceedings for Mexican nationals resists dehumanizing legal and political language to make space for the humanity of asylum-seekers.

Jan 31, 2024 | ragazzo.substack.com | Helen De Cruz |Cassandra Willyard |Christine Weeber |Ather Zia

Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human. LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Helen De Cruz, Wondering Freely“The argument is ‘At least it gets us to talk about climate change,’ but we are already talking. Awareness is not the issue. In many countries, the public is aware climate change is happening, and worry about it.

Jan 31, 2024 | sapiens.org | Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias |Bridget Alex |Christine Weeber |Ather Zia

✽The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. Geneticist Svante Päabo had, according to the awarding group, made a “seemingly impossible task” possible: extracting DNA from the remains of individuals who lived long ago. Päabo had turned science fiction into science fact, and now the entire field was being rewarded.