Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

The divisions they display for the most part don’t correspond to any familiar type of boundaries — political, natural, or cultural. 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. So what do they denote? Why the long face?

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. The project invited students to consider how scientific knowledge develops and is situated in the historical and cultural dimensions of the times.

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Anthropology News

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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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. He is currently working on a study of Civil War visual culture for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bogart is professor emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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Anthropology News

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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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada We are all familiar with Spurgeon’s adage: “begin as you mean to go on.” Martin & Bolliger, 2018; Zulkifli & Idris, 2021). They come in different sizes and materials, make different sounds, and have fun cultural references built in.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada We are all familiar with Spurgeon’s adage: “begin as you mean to go on.” Martin & Bolliger, 2018; Zulkifli & Idris, 2021). They come in different sizes and materials, make different sounds, and have fun cultural references built in.

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 11, 2023

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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you write about Blackness while trying to resist the insidious pull of cultural and racial assimilation? As Black Nordics, we live in countries that top “Happiest Nation in the World” lists yearly, lists that often make cursory mention of racial-cultural homogeneity as a key contributor to national happiness. Hall, Stuart.

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Anthropology News

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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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For example, as conferences moved to an online format, a Nicaraguan colleague and I were able to co-present a paper on decolonizing critical thinking in English teaching at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference in 2021. Tricia Niesz is the section contributing editor for the Council on Anthropology and Education.

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Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2024

LAWS SANCTIONING SUFFERING My research inside Israeli military courts and prison visitation rooms—both as an anthropological researcher and a family member of prisoners—highlights the systematic nature of this violence and its justification through legal codes. My interviews bear this out.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2023

But with campuses in the crosshairs of the culture wars, many students are now also taking stock of attacks on diversity, course content, and speech and speakers from both ends of the political spectrum. Beyond the Rankings: College Welcome Guide What kind of culture and political atmosphere does your prospective campus have?

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