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Jehovah’s Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia

Anthropology News

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. Jean Hunleth and Samar Al-Bulushi are the section contributing editors for the Association for Africanist Anthropology.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

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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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. Joseph Feldman is the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology section editor. What is solidarity?

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The skull maps that quantified racism

Strange Maps

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. He held various important government posts in the first decades of the 20th century, including Administrator of Labor Standards in the Department of War (1917-18). Credit : Z.

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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

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. It is a syndemic.

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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

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. Do I leave?” “Is Is it worth it?”

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The Moral Complexities of Delegate Children in Aging China

Anthropology News

The 2021 Civil Code introduced multiple new articles on adult guardianship, including the provision for individuals to select their guardians when fully capable. However, the government policies fail to outline practical measures, leaving a gap in the market for exploring professional standards.