Hipólito Sanchiz Alcaraz

Jan 3, 2024 | sapiens.org | Keridwen Cornelius |Hipólito Sanchiz Alcaraz |Annie Tucker |Benjamin Hollenbach

✽When Meredith first came to St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, she had just turned 50, she was battling cancer, and she was in danger of losing her home. To make matters worse, she was estranged from her family due to coming out as a lesbian. Having been a faithful churchgoer in her youth, she hoped that finding a church where she could be open about her sexuality might provide comfort in her dire situation.

Dec 14, 2023 | sapiens.org | Hipólito Sanchiz Alcaraz |Annie Tucker |Robert Lemelson |Lynne J. Quick

Co-hosts Kate Ellis and Doris Tulifau explore the perils and possibilities of the kind of fieldwork that defined Margaret Mead as an anthropologist. They provide answers to the Mead-Freeman controversy but also ask the questions that remain. In this season finale, we circle back to the problems with coming of age … in Samoa and everywhere.

Dec 5, 2023 | sapiens.org | Hipólito Sanchiz Alcaraz |Annie Tucker |Robert Lemelson |Lynne J. Quick

We turn from Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman’s conflicting accounts of adolescence and sexuality in Samoa to more stories from Samoans themselves. Author and poet Sia Figiel and activist and anthropologist Doris Tulifau are two Samoan women from different generations. Yet they share a bond and have had similar experiences of horrific violence that they have survived.

Nov 29, 2023 | sapiens.org | Marlaina Martin |Hipólito Sanchiz Alcaraz |Annie Tucker |Robert Lemelson

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽THERE ARE ANCIENT PIRATES and modern treasure hunters. They are separated by more than 200 years of history, differences in available technology, and types of sponsorship that keep them afloat—the former sailing for a country and the latter protected by a company.

Sep 28, 2023 | phys.org | Hipólito Sanchiz Alcaraz

There are ancient pirates and modern treasure hunters. They are separated by more than 200 years of history, differences in the available technology, and types of sponsorship that keep them afloat—the former sailing for a country and the latter protected by a company. Even so, they seem to have the same objective: the gold and silver of the Spanish Empire.