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Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? by 2nd April 2023.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old. Nash (1966), and the geographer Franklin (1969).

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. And universities collectively jettisoned 651 programs in languages between 2013 and 2016, the MLA reports, compared to only one in the four years before that.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

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! Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

As the American Academy of Arts and Science’s 2013 “The Heart of the Matter” report observes, connecting these fields is necessary to solve the world’s biggest problems such as “the provision of clean air and water, food, health, energy, universal education, human rights, and the assurance of physical safety.”.

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Ivy League degree: Now what?

The Hechinger Report

I wish I’d had somebody keeping it really real about this transition,” says Victoria Shantrell Asbury, a sociology graduate student at Harvard who moderated the November forum and was a low-income first gen undergraduate at Stanford University. Louis in 2013. Yet he hears it’s “such a waste of your potential” because it is corporate.

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