Robert Lemelson

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.

Nov 22, 2023 | sapiens.org | Annie Tucker |Robert Lemelson

Get weekly insights about our world through anthropology. A new multimedia project connects the development of a Balinese regional painting style with anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who began commissioning art in the region in the 1930s. This painting by Ida Bagus Ketut Diding, like many collected by Bateson and Mead, depicts a scene drawn from ritual life.