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Gathering Firewood—and Redefining Land Stewardship—at Bears Ears

Sapiens

Since 2015, our research team has been part of a collaborative project that’s trying to better understand the significance and challenges of wood-hauling practices for Indigenous communities. However, none have yet succeeded due to a combination of cultural, economic, and institutional barriers.

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Jehovah’s Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia

Anthropology News

September 2015. September 2015. Even with increased interactions through evangelizing, there have been growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Zambia in recent years, often based in economic inequalities between the countries. In this dimension, the interactions are not as straightforward as mere economic or political engagements.

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Learn more about: Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico

Political Science Now

He is a behavioral economist who uses economic theory and empirics to study topics in the intersection of economics, psychology, political science, sociology and anthropology.

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Discomfort as a Transformative Ethnographic Method

Anthropology News

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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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. Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors.

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What Counts as “Drudgery” and Who Decides?

Anthropology News

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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How colleges can become ‘living labs’ for combating climate change 

The Hechinger Report

Students in an economics class filled the entryway of a library with posters on topics such as the lack of public walking paths and bike lanes in the surrounding county and inadequate waste disposal in New York State. “It’s an invisible problem that not everyone is thinking about,” he said. You can notice a water bottle floating in a river.