Anthropology News

AUGUST 23, 2024

(1935-2024) On July 5, 2024 Dr. Alan Harwood, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, died at the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, Massachusetts surrounded by his children, Jessica and Seth Harwood, and his wife, Margot Welch.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women.” The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Teenagers said that the pressure to get good grades was their biggest cause of stress , a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found. “A Disabatino, now a UCSC junior double-majoring in psychology and anthropology and also the first in her low-income family to go to college, said: “I kind of felt like a deer in the headlights.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She was sitting in front of a desktop Dell in a converted brownstone in New York City, clicking through lessons in an online psychology class about stress, when she heard the word “resilience” for the first time. She completely lacked interest in and motivation for her anthropology coursework, which she had previously loved.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

On April 30th, 2019, during the last day of the semester at UNC-Charlotte, students presented their projects in my Science and Technology Studies class. In my discipline of anthropology—a field inherently concerned with both cultural and biological diversity—there is an unsettling paradox.

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Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Initially the VMP was run through the course learning management system to release a unique anthropological case scenario to each PBL group, comprised of three weekly clues culminating in a larger VM report at the end of the term. The VMP content spans the subfields of biological anthropology (evolutionary, primatology), and archaeology.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ithaca College costs $132,656, on average, and two years later, graduates are earning $19,227. Information about debt incurred for specific programs, rather than averaged among every student at an institution, became available for the first time in 2019.

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