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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

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. Why teach syndemics? Mendenhall, E. Ostrach, B.,

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The Gene That May Have Helped Shape Human Language

Anthropology.net

A Glimpse into the Evolution of Speech The evolution of human speech remains one of the most fascinating mysteries in anthropology and genetics. 2014) – "Humanized Foxp2 accelerates learning by enhancing transitions from declarative to procedural performance" ( PNAS ). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00397 2013.00397 Lai et al.

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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

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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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

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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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

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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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Trump plan would base student loans on employability

The Hechinger Report

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. Case Western Reserve senior Evangelina Din, 21, is majoring in cognitive science and psychology with a pre-med focus.