Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region. Jesús belongs to Bolivia’s Criollo middle-class, and the land he bought up for Paradise Farm is located upon the traditional homelands of several Indigenous Guaraní, Ayoreo, and Chiquitanos communities.

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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. The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

People of traditional college age, between 18 and 25, are also in the age group that is more likely than any other to experience mental illness , and most mental health conditions develop by the age of 24. She completely lacked interest in and motivation for her anthropology coursework, which she had previously loved.

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Anthropology 365

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. However, there is more that we can do.

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APRIL 11, 2023

2017), scarcity (Lane 2019; McAfee 2016), conflict (Krauss 2015; Latour 2015), and species invasions (Helmreich 2005; Pfeiffer and Voeks 2008), all living things have to come to terms with future uncertainty. 2015), a loss of habitat (Corales, De Assis Montag, and Dunck 2022; Johnson et al.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

That has helped boost undergraduate and graduate enrollment in Georgia Techs Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts by 58 percent since 2019, to 1,884 students in 2023 the most recent period for which the figure is available. The traditional argument for the humanities, Brookes said, has been, Well, it will make you a better citizen and person.

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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.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Some communities are entirely nomadic, while others have settled into farming villages, adopting new traditions while retaining core elements of their pastoralist identity. 2019) explored genome-wide adaptations in Fulani nomads, focusing on the lactase persistence trait. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 137 (2), 168-174.

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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. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.22908

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I began in-person after-school tutoring in 2019, supporting teenagers from Central America with their math, science, and English homework. In time, Keyla felt comfortable enough with me to seek help outside the traditional tutoring role of the program.

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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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