Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

September 2015. September 2015. For them, the barriers to converting Chinese expatriates are cultural instead of ontological: not a matter of different kinds of souls, as described by some other Zambian Christians, but rather of linguistic misunderstanding. Summers Coal Mine, Southern Province, Zambia.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The impact of the 2015 earthquakes, a focus during my fieldwork, had reduced many of the city’s magnificent temples to rubble; however, in 2022 some of these temples had already been rebuilt and others were undergoing reconstruction. The head and the intestines of the goat are offered to the deity along with flowers, incense, and sweets.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We discovered his first teeth in 2015 lying on the ground at the cave’s entrance, barely covered by a few leaves. Evolutionary, cultural, and social processes that seem unimaginable if we try to apply them to sapiens populations, as we understand them through cultural anthropology, history, and archaeology.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. So the projects brought in teams from African studies programs who understood the culture.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

And yet, they have been re-energized by our climate crisis and by several United Nations initiatives, including the 2000 Millennium Development Goals, the 2010 founding of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, and the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

Comparing the frequency of words in English language books between 1950 and 2015, the author tracked how the term “Atlantis” grew to outrank other popular conspiracy theories, real archaeological sites, and actual figures from ancient history. Meanwhile, it seems few people know what archaeologists actually do. K–12 schools in the U.S.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2015, while conducting anthropological fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, a member of our team (Cole) heard local women discussing how water shortages were triggering arguments between partners. Too often these arguments turned violent, with men slapping, pushing, or otherwise beating their wives.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

These results suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans coexisted and exchanged genes during a time shaped by profound environmental shifts and cultural advancements, such as technological innovation and the adaptation to diverse habitats. Journal : The American Journal of Human Genetics , 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.10.003

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Broader Implications for Ice Age Research The study builds on a growing body of research into the genetic and cultural diversity of Ice Age populations. ” Future Directions in Ancient DNA Research The findings pave the way for further investigations into early European populations. Additional Related Research Pinhasi, R.,

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Grove, Jubilee Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Courtesy Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, passed away on May 24, 2023, at the age of 87 after a long illness. 1935-2023 David C. Grove, 1935-2023 David C. 1000–500 BC in the Formative (Preclassic) period.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. He is currently working on a study of Civil War visual culture for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bogart is professor emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. The project invited students to consider how scientific knowledge develops and is situated in the historical and cultural dimensions of the times.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In 2015, amid rising arrivals of asylum-seeking families along the Mexico-US border, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) constructed and opened a facility in Dilley intended to detain some of those families while they underwent one of the initial stages of the legal process: the credible or reasonable fear interview.

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APRIL 11, 2023

As we experience increasing precarity associated with defining characteristics of the Anthropocene, such as climate change (Gibson and Venkateswar 2015; McGill et al. 2015), a loss of habitat (Corales, De Assis Montag, and Dunck 2022; Johnson et al. Tsing 2015: 23).

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Current Anthropology, 26(2), 223–246. Cross-Cultural Research, 41(2), 170–195. Current Anthropology, 50(1), 51–74. Related Research These studies build upon the concepts of labor division, cooperation, and bargaining dynamics in small-scale societies. Salali, G. Chaudhary, N., Thompson, J., Vinicius, L.,

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Outdoor pollution (arising, in part, from burning fossil fuels, coal-fired power plants, oil and gas extraction, and fracking) was classified in 2015 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a group 1 carcinogen , meaning sufficient evidence exists to conclude that hazardous ambient air particle matter causes cancer in humans.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

As states forgo redistributive policy and embrace marketized economies that commodify education as the morally legitimized means of social mobility, scholars in anthropology and education have turned critical attention to pedagogies of aspiration. Tricia Niesz is the section contributing editor for the Council on Anthropology and Education.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In some circles, the use of capitalization for “Deaf” and “Disabled” indicates a cultural identity rather than a medical diagnosis. As a staff member at the ASDC explained in 2015 in reference to the Israeli military operation, “Not all families were able to use sign language to explain the reason behind the brutality.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

United Nations estimates showed that roughly 150,000 Somali immigrants were living in the United States in 2015, according to the Pew Research Center. They then moved north to the Lewiston-Auburn area, where housing is cheaper, said Elizabeth Eames, a Bates College associate professor of anthropology. Photo: Yoon S.

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