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Oct 6, 2024 | 
msn.com | Victoria Gibbon
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
nature.com | Victoria Gibbon |Jessica Thompson
We argue for implementation of informed proxy or relational autonomy consent in human aDNA research, where the deceased may be represented by living people the research affects.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | Lynne J. Quick |Marlaina Martin |Stephen Nash |Victoria Gibbon
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽IF YOU ARE ALLERGIC to pollen, you are likely to curse the existence of these microscopic particles. You’re not alone: of the world’s population suffers from hay fever, which is often driven by pollen allergies. Shifting global climates are likely to push that figure even higher.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | Stephen Nash |Victoria Gibbon |Veronica Gonzalez |Beni Sumer Yanthan
The first Christian missionaries arrived in Samoa in 1830, almost a century before Margaret Mead set out to study the culture of the islands. By the time she arrived, the church had been a central part of Samoan life for generations. In this episode, co-host Doris Tulifau explores how Christianity and colonization complicate Mead’s—and her critic anthropologist Derek Freeman’s—conclusions and continue to shape Samoan identity today.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | Kerstin Lange |Emily Sekine |Stephen Nash |Victoria Gibbon
✽The German word for East is Ost. Straightforward enough, one might think. But in the once-divided country where I grew up, the word still carries geopolitical reverberations. In November 1989, I watched the fall of the Berlin Wall on TV from my living room in upstate New York, open-mouthed. East Germans were streaming through checkpoints that had been hermetically closed to them for decades.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | Stephen Nash |Victoria Gibbon |Veronica Gonzalez |Beni Sumer Yanthan
In January 1983, the front page of The New York Times read: “New Samoa Book Challenges Margaret Mead’s Conclusions.”Anthropologist Derek Freeman had been building his critique of Mead for years, sending her letters and even confronting her in person. Freeman’s resulting book, Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, was published five years after Mead died. Who was Freeman, and why did he take such issue with Mead’s work in American Samoa?
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | Stephen Nash |Victoria Gibbon |Veronica Gonzalez |Beni Sumer Yanthan
Sparked by a provocative encounter in American Samoa, Doris Tulifau explores modern-day Samoan attitudes toward Margaret Mead. With a mix of voices and opinions, we encounter three loud ideas around Mead’s work, ultimately dropping us at the doorstep of Derek Freeman’s central critique about Samoan culture and society.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | Stephen Nash |Bridget Alex |Victoria Gibbon |Veronica Gonzalez
Museums have been the focus of devastating critiques lately. A major Propublica investigation into unnecessary delays in the repatriation of Native American ancestors and their belongings. A revelation about theft-by-curator at the . A Denver Post exposé on looted antiquities at the Denver Art Museum. Reporting on a racist collection of pickled human brains at the Smithsonian Institution. Even late-night talk show host John Oliver piled on. Much of the criticism is warranted.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | Victoria Gibbon |Veronica Gonzalez |Beni Sumer Yanthan |Thomas Pearson
In 1925, Margaret Mead set sail for American Samoa. What she claimed in her book Coming of Age to have found there—teenagers free to explore and express their sexuality—instantly captivated her audience in the U.S. Her book became a bestseller, and Mead skyrocketed to fame. But what were her actual methods and motivations? We trace Mead’s legendary nine-month journey in the South Pacific.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
sapiens.org | Victoria Gibbon |Marlaina Martin |Veronica Gonzalez |Beni Sumer Yanthan
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished with Creative Commons. ✽IT HAS BEEN NEARLY 100 years since the skeletonized remains of nine people were removed from their graves on a farm near the town of Sutherland in South Africa’s Northern Cape province.
