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. Josh Meyer is the section contributing editor for the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Origins of Risky Play: A Legacy from Early Humans Co-author Zane Thayer, associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth, explains that although children today are physically safer than ever before, societal anxiety about injuries has never been higher. ” The researchers connect this concept to our evolutionary history.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Dr. Benjamin Peter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology explained, “We show that the period of mixing was quite complex. Journal : Nature , 2014. Journal : American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 2011. Different groups may have separated and reconnected over this extended timeframe.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Richard Wrangham, a retired professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, noted 2 that starch grains can be detected in teeth dating back at least 50,000 years. Cooked starch grains found in the hardened dental plaque, or dental calculus, of ancient humans offer one of the more direct lines of evidence for early cooking.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

The P2P industry thrived in 2014, championing financial inclusion ( puhui jinrong ) endorsed by the state. The post Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China appeared first on Anthropology News.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The Teagle grant supported course-sharing and online module development at more than 35 institutions and organizations, and engaged more than 180 faculty and staff between 2014 and 2017. Make them a requirement toward a business degree. Here is what we learned: Student learning in hybrid and traditional classrooms is comparable.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Sustainable development ties together concern for the carrying capacity of natural systems with the social, political, and economic challenges faced by humanity (Kahle and Gurel-Atay 2014).

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Anthropology News

MAY 28, 2024

I observed various ways of asking for alms in different urban locations for four years (2010–2014) in Guangzhou and talked to people panhandling in the present or the past. Aaron Su and Jieun Cho are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

In 2014, three students at Brown University started 1vyG, short for inter-Ivy first-generation college student network. After interning at Goldman Sachs, Cemaloglu took a job with ReD Associates, a consulting firm with an anthropological research spin that he could morally get behind. They have built a movement.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Previously, she was NPS chief historian for the southeast region, managing history and cultural anthropology programs for 67 national parks, and earlier served as regional program manager for the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. Turkiya Lowe is National Park Service national chief historian.

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APRIL 11, 2023

I consider encounters as “engagements across difference” (Faier and Rofel 2014), where humans and javelinas must negotiate individual interactions. Chapter 3: Multispecies Politics Chapter three analyzes how human-javelina encounters take the shapes they do. I conceptualize the negotiation of encounters as an intimate multispecies politics.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

MerrillSinger, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. As medical anthropologist Lance Gravlee observed, syndemics has achieved a broader reach than most anthropological ideas. It is a syndemic. Books and edited collections include Singer, M.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Related Studies These articles expand on themes of material culture, identity, and the anthropological interpretations of Iberian engraved plaques. Journal : Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 2017. Journal : PLoS ONE , 2014. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0088296

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

At Delta State, for instance, enrollment is down by nearly a quarter since 2014. A drop in tuition revenue stemming from that decline created an $11 million hole in the university’s budget, President Daniel Ennis, told the campus last year.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Current Anthropology, 26(2), 223–246. Current Anthropology, 50(1), 51–74. DOI:10.1038/s41562-021-01134-2 Explores the development of gendered division of labor and its relationship with social inequalities in early human societies. Pontzer, H., Raichlen, D. A., & Marlowe, F. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1401949111 Kaplan, H.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 45, 94–108. Variation, interaction, and violence in Neolithic Northern Spain. link] Smith, G. Earliest direct evidence of human cannibalism in prehistoric Europe. Scientific Reports , 7, 7019. link] Armit, I., Swindles, G. T., & Becker, K.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

When information about the disturbing nature of the unmarked common grave hit the international press in 2014, a scandal was born. Lauren Crossland-Marr is the section contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. Note: All names other than those of public figures have been changed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. He said he believes Missouri’s program, first offered in 2014, was among the first in the country. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 23, 2024

This article is based on Brooke Bocast’s book, If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa, which won the 2023 Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) Outstanding Book Award. If Books Fail, Try Beauty contributes to three overlapping bodies of anthropological scholarship. Milly is smart in her game.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Barbuncho, the Dog behind the Story Back in 2014, my heart skipped a beat when I began to read a widely circulating article about a “stray” dog who “adopted a team of Swedish trekkers in the Amazon.”

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. History and Civics scores for eighth-grade students sounded an alarm: scores have dropped by an average of five points since 2018 and nine points since 2014.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Many of them had been severely traumatized during Israel’s so-called Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014. In 2016, as a master’s student, I published an article in Boston University’s Pardee Periodical (now The Pardee Atlas: Journal of Global Affairs ) about a new initiative at the ASDC to support their students.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 10, 2025

Thus, IDC builds overall research capacity including for anthropologists and anthropology students. The post Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care appeared first on Anthropology News. Feldman, J. Bercovitz, and Scott Langfo. Ledford, Heidi.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

The figures are from 2014, the most recent available. If a student and their family are paying tens of thousands of dollars per year to study anthropology, they should have some idea about the job prospects. And while the unemployment rate for all new bachelor’s degree recipients dropped from 7.1 percent in March 2011 to 4.2

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Suskind 2014, 55) The Suskinds find that they can communicate with Owen in an increasingly open manner, once he has been unlocked through the shared media of Disney films. The post Forget Care appeared first on Anthropology News. I cant understand what people say. Imtalkingtomysonfor thefirsttimeinfiveyears.OrIagois.

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