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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. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”. That, too, is likely to accelerate. “To

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Hospitality and Care towards the (Un)knowable Stranger in Greek Orthodox Charities

Anthropology News

The stranger as a general category of analysis stands out within the social sciences precisely for what Georg Simmel dubbed this “constellation” of “near[ness] and far[ness] at the same time.” James Verinis is the contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

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Trump plan would base student loans on employability

The Hechinger Report

percent in March 2016, for new arts, law and public policy graduates it was 8.5 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 ‘Will my kid get a job?’ ”. percent in March 2011 to 4.2