Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Another pair of us (Renita and Jen) initiated the Meeting Ethnography project back in 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. The proportion of undergraduates who receive bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has fallen from a high of one in six to about one in 20 , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.”

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

It was 2013, and I was on my first trip to Colombia. After my first trip to Colombia in 2013, I began to grapple with this question. Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 11, 2023

Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of difference? In these regions, their lives become entangled with those of the humans with whom they share these spaces.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is author of Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America (1919). 2002) as well as contributions to anthologies and catalogs including Beyond Face: New Perspectives in Portraiture (2018), and Black Is Black Ain’t (2013). Motley, Jr.,

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A recent study published in Evolution and Human Behaviour 1 challenges conventional narratives about gender roles, revealing a surprising level of equality in how work and leisure are shared in hunter-gatherer societies. Credit: Evolution and Human Behavior (2024). Nature Human Behaviour, 5(9), 1195–1205. Pontzer, H.,

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

My point is to communicate that there are many languages and, therefore, an incredible diversity of ways humans think, reason, and feel. This online database is free, thanks to the department of cultural and linguistic evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. Perhaps the best known is Glottolog.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Steward’s theory: Steward created a theoretical perspective that was distinctive in mid-20th-century anthropology. His theoretical ideas were the antithesis of humanistic and relativistic trends in cultural anthropology at the time. Over time, it became a unifying concept in American anthropology, spanning several subfields.

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