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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Intended Readership The book is intended for scholars and students in anthropology, environmental studies, and animal studies, particularly those with interests in human-environment relations, multispecies ethnography, and human-animal relations.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In the dim light of a Monday morning in August 2018, Meng, a 33-year-old woman living near Beijing, began her day with a sense of urgency. I conducted fieldwork among Chinese middle-class investors from 2018 to 2021, precisely during the period marked by the industry’s decline, to capture people’s shifting perception of their financial lives.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Archaeologists do not in any noteworthy way direct armies, shape economies, write laws, or imprison or free people from bondage (McGuire, 2018). The American expression of the new archaeology, advocating high-level generalization and a crosscultural comparative perspective, 'asserts the unimportance of national traditions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

I hadn’t had many interactions with white people,” said Carter, now a senior majoring in anthropology and cell biology. “I All of our traditional tools,” said Smith, “have to be reconsidered.”. But college should stretch you, she felt, so Carter chose Tulane, where the student body is 75 percent white. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Inside the grand, art deco-influenced building, students study rhetoric and sociology, Antigone and anthropology. Classes run from 9 a.m.

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Over 80% of students surveyed in a 2018 study cited financial stress as a key driver of anxiety and depression. In my discipline of anthropology—a field inherently concerned with both cultural and biological diversity—there is an unsettling paradox. Being clear about what we expect in the class can alleviate academic stress.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 14, 2024

. “This is the first evidence of Maya sacrifices involving twins, which were important for Maya [beliefs about the universe],” …says Barquera, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He examined the chamber in 2017 and 2018.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 21, 2024

He obtained his formal education in Caracas, and then California, before moving to the University of Chicago to further his studies in anthropology, ultimately obtaining his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. Morris ) The post Rafael Sánchez Cacheiro appeared first on Anthropology News. Patricia Spyer and Rosalind C.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

"We know the community of microbes living in the large intestine can produce compounds that affect aspects of human biology," explained Katherine Amato, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern and lead author of the study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 159 (S61), 196–215. Clayton, J. DOI:10.1002/ajp.22867

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Credit: Mason Kumet for The Hechinger Report The number of undergraduates majoring in the humanities at the University of Arizona has increased 76 percent since 2018, when it introduced a bachelors degree in applied humanities that connects the humanities with programs in business, engineering, medicine and other fields.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Revisiting Assumptions About Brain Evolution Traditional views of human evolution suggested that brain size underwent sudden, transformative increases between species, akin to major technological leaps. Source: Current Anthropology. A Farewell to the Encephalization Quotient Van Schaik, C. Triki, Z., & Bshary, R. Püschel, T.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Hearst Museum of Anthropology taken by colleague Linda Waterfield. Born and educated in New York City, he matriculated at Yale University in 1970, graduating in 1974 with a dual degree in art history and anthropology and a senior thesis on the Japanese tea ceremony. Two central points of his analysis deserve attention.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

However, by April 2018, Nicaraguans’ frustrations with an increasingly dictatorial government led to demonstrations that endured for five days before they were brutally suppressed by President Daniel Ortega’s police and military. In time, Keyla felt comfortable enough with me to seek help outside the traditional tutoring role of the program.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2020

Graduate teaching assistants at Columbia went on strike in 2018 to protest the university’s refusal to negotiate with their newly formed union. Still, said Aparna Gopalan, a doctoral student in anthropology at Harvard and an active member of the union on that campus, graduate workers during the pandemic have gained a big foothold.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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