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In Texas, where I currently live, efforts by the Texas Lobo Coalition aim to re-envision the state as wolf country, even though Mexican wolves have been extirpated from Texas since 1970, and red wolves were declared extinct there by the 1980s -although a remnant population may persist near Galveston ( Barnes 2021 ).

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I see even more challenges in a discipline such as anthropology where active learning and fieldwork are the primary pedagogy. I think this is probably fitting as we navigate teaching anthropology in this post-pandemic learning environment. However, perhaps it is time to accommodate students in this post-pandemic world. link] Mok, K.,

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JANUARY 23, 2025

billion as of August 2021, and accusations of Chinas debt-trap diplomacy have been frequently repeated in Zambia, especially during the campaign in August 2021. Jean Hunleth and Samar Al-Bulushi are the section contributing editors for the Association for Africanist Anthropology.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe.

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MARCH 27, 2025

Credit: Cline Eschenbrenner Informal markings on a wall in the borderlands between France and Italy, 2021. The post Off Track: Undoing Migrant Routes across Western Europe appeared first on Anthropology News. Routes refer less to migrant trajectories across Europe than to a modality of control and regulation.

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Dr. Benjamin Peter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology explained, “We show that the period of mixing was quite complex. Journal : American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 2011. Journal : Nature , 2021. Different groups may have separated and reconnected over this extended timeframe.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

The 2021 UK census recorded 524,000 Sikhs, which is an increase of 24% since the 2011 census. The research program started in the spring of 2022 with an anthropological study in one large Kent Sikh community, examining health beliefs and experiences of migration and racism across different generations of Sikhs.

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APRIL 30, 2024

By 2021, the state officially ended all remaining P2P lending platforms to curb risks from spreading to other financial sectors. 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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APRIL 4, 2024

Not too long after the restaurant opened in 2021, I remember seeing a coworker meticulously picking every last grain of hand-harvested wild rice out of a pan that had otherwise already been cleaned out by someone else before service. This food and this fieldwork have been about them , their stories, and the stories we made together.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At AAA, her major responsibility was revamping the “Major in Anthropology” poster. At the AAA office, Jasmin updated a AAA report on completed bachelor’s degrees in anthropology from the years 2017 to 2021 by creating visualizations using recent numbers from public data. We have learned and grown so much through the internship.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

By Alyssa Kitt Hanley, with photography by Ash Marinaccio Credit: Ash Marinaccio Case Study A 34-year-old woman presented to a neurologist in Sydney, Australia, in April 2021 after experiencing a first occurrence of severe facial paralysis overnight. The post Radiation Drain appeared first on Anthropology News.

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JUNE 29, 2022

But approximately 113,000 students took leaves of absence in 2021, which included medical leaves for mental health reasons, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. She completely lacked interest in and motivation for her anthropology coursework, which she had previously loved. It was a million little things.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

This protest, eventually somewhat successful, preceded even larger (and widely repressed) nationwide protests in 2021 against neoliberal austerity. Joseph Feldman is the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology section editor. The post Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times appeared first on Anthropology News.

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His book, The Races of Europe (1899), is a prime example of this pseudoscientific approach to anthropology, but it was relatively non-controversial at the time. Bognár et al, Sci Rep , 2021 — CC BY 4.0 ) Strange Maps #1217 Got a strange map? The maps shown here are all the work of William Z. Why the long face? Credit : Z.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

New York, NY: Basic Books, 2021. Milano, Italy: Skira, 2021. The post ​​​“Å falle mellom to stoler”: Africans in Norway appeared first on Anthropology News. “Why Can’t We Have Nice Things.” In ‘Å falle mellom to stoler.’ Moss, Norway: Hverdag Books, 2023. Otele, Olivette. African Europeans: An Untold History. July 1, 2010.

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The book was a Finalist, 2021 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize, and 2020 First Book Award, The Library Company of Philadelphia. He is a scholar of nineteenth century African American history, politics, and visual culture. Gonzalez will lecture on the pre-war image of slavery.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In January of 2021, I was employed as a postdoctoral researcher in a division of public health at a medical school. Credit: Katharine Lee Figure 2: Screenshot of Slack message, from February 1, 2021 Credit: Kate Clancy Figure 3: Screenshots of posts from Kate Clancy’s Twitter asking about periods after vaccines (Fig.

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I take seriously the position that our future and that of all other species are shaped by the more-than-human relations we cultivate (Fijn and Kavesh 2021; Haraway 2016; Tschakert 2022; Tschakert et al.

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MerrillSinger, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. As medical anthropologist Lance Gravlee observed, syndemics has achieved a broader reach than most anthropological ideas. New York: Wiley, 2021. A Companion to Medical Anthropology.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Source: Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 2021. Source: Current Anthropology , 2015. Source: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 2021. The Archaeology of Bone Needle Technology Comprehensive review of bone needle technology, focusing on functional and cultural contexts across Paleoindian sites. 1 Pelton, S.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Related Studies These articles expand on themes of material culture, identity, and the anthropological interpretations of Iberian engraved plaques. Journal : Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia , 2021. Journal : Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 2017. Blanco, G., & Rodríguez-Rodríguez, E.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Youngstown State University in Ohio, for instance, axed Italian, religious studies and other majors in 2021 , then six more three years later. Some rural-serving public universities and public universities in largely rural states have now undergone repeated rounds of cuts.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Current Anthropology, 26(2), 223–246. Current Anthropology, 50(1), 51–74. DOI:10.1126/science.aaa5139 Examines how sex equality in labor contributions influences the social structure and cooperation within hunter-gatherer bands. Mattison, S. Sum, C., & Shenk, M. The evolution of inequality. Kaplan, H. S., & Hill, K.

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MARCH 15, 2025

A recent paper in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology urges anthropologists and anatomists to confront the legacy of human skeletal collections and calls for a new ethical framework that prioritizes transparency, community collaboration, and respect for the deceased. Annual Review of Anthropology, 51 , 125-142.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

The 2021 Civil Code introduced multiple new articles on adult guardianship, including the provision for individuals to select their guardians when fully capable. Aaron Su and Jieun Cho are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While studying to become a physician, I was one of the lucky few who had the chance to also study human genetic evolution and its impact on health—topics missing from most medical curricula but central to fields such as biological anthropology. These fields understood that racial categories used today in the U.S.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

In 2021, these megafires earned Bolivia third position among countries suffering intense forest losses from fire. Taras Fedirko and Whitney Russell are section contributing editors for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. But to my surprise Jesús had little interest in talking about the fires.

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Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who was not involved in the study, remarked, “This work provides an invaluable piece of the puzzle in understanding human adaptations and migrations during the Last Glacial Maximum.” Nature, 514(7523), 445-449. Villalba-Mouco, V.,

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A 2021 study by scholars at University College London found that university students are more at risk of anxiety and depression than peers who do not attend. In my discipline of anthropology—a field inherently concerned with both cultural and biological diversity—there is an unsettling paradox.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Cooling and Releasing “La Calentura” In 2021, Mexico began its first national census on its LGBTQIA+ population , which indicated that at least 5.1% appeared first on Anthropology News. These interactions might be commonplace, but they are still influenced by stigma toward homosexual behaviors and identities.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Outside of anthropology, he became known for his popular salvos on work and democracyincluding the breakthrough publication Debt: The First 5,000 Years and his activism within the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011. At the time of his death, we were co-editing a book series at Pluto Press called Anthropology, Culture, and Society.

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APRIL 16, 2024

After working full-time for IFF on the Dominican Republic’s north coast for five years (2012–2017), I returned in 2021 for my dissertation research with this question in mind. The post Putting Language to Work in the Dominican Republic appeared first on Anthropology News.

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The pandemic also took a toll on other historically marginalized groups: For example, the annual rate of death by suicide among elders over the age of 85 in Clark County, Nevada, increased by 14 percent across the pre- and post-pandemic periods, according to research in forensic anthropology. In fact, many of us rarely, if ever, testify.

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In 2021, Siembo, along with local anthropologist and co-author George Umoja and other like-minded Rusingans, started the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization (RIPO). Among the many anthropological outreach efforts around the worldwhich are typically led from the top down or by cultural outsidersthis homegrown organization is unique.

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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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1952-2021 Credit: Linda Waterfield Ira Jacknis in his office at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology taken by colleague Linda Waterfield. Ira Jacknis passed away unexpectedly at his home in Oakland, California on September 29, 2021. In 1991 he took a position as a research anthropologist at the Phoebe A.

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Source: Current Anthropology. Examines endocranial volume trends across hominin species, focusing on the role of within-species changes in brain size linked to environmental and social pressures. Source: F1000Research. A Farewell to the Encephalization Quotient Van Schaik, C. Triki, Z., & Bshary, R.

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