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.net

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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Anthropology News

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. Additionally, their work often requires mediating between the clients wishes and a legal culture that favors familial ties and the rights of biological children.

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Anthropology News

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. This greatly impressed Mr. Cheng.

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Anthropology News

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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

These results suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans coexisted and exchanged genes during a time shaped by profound environmental shifts and cultural advancements, such as technological innovation and the adaptation to diverse habitats. Journal : American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 2011. Journal : Nature , 2021.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Broader Implications for Ice Age Research The study builds on a growing body of research into the genetic and cultural diversity of Ice Age populations. ” Future Directions in Ancient DNA Research The findings pave the way for further investigations into early European populations. Nature, 514(7523), 445-449. Villalba-Mouco, V.,

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Anthropology News

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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Anthropology News

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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Anthropology News

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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Anthropology News

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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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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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

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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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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Sapiens

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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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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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 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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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Current Anthropology, 26(2), 223–246. Cross-Cultural Research, 41(2), 170–195. 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.

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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 six weeks, we spent 40 percent of our time at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) office and 60 percent of our time at partner institutions: the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC). We have learned and grown so much through the internship.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Human brain evolution has long fascinated scientists, as it underpins the development of intelligence, culture, and complex behavior. ” This complexity underscores the multifaceted nature of evolutionary pressures, including environmental challenges, social interactions, and the development of tools and culture.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This series brings together writing from several members of a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project called ARIES (Anthropological Research into the Imaginaries and Exploration of Space). The number of orbital launches climbed steadily as wellfrom 145 in 2021 to 186 a year later.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

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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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. A National Investment in Social Studies In 2021, the Thomas B. At its core, social studies aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to actively participate in civic affairs.

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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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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But while the authors acknowledge and cite the contributions of industry-employed anthropologists, they do not, in this overview of the anthropology of data, center the outsized role that anthropology already plays in the sphere of user data.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 1, 2025

Ibrahim and Omar had migrated in 2021 to join religious groups in Cairo under the tutelage of renowned Yemeni scholar Habib Umar. He explained that everyday life in Britain had become saturated in cultural debates over sexuality and that he migrated to ensure his child developed a stable Muslim identity.

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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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