Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you study Blackness in a place that denies its local history of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black structural violence? One of the challenges we face as African Norwegians is that our history in the country we have come to call home often is not well known, both within and outside our communities. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2021.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

There is a long history of US imperial politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. 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.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

She planned to major in digital media arts, but before she could start, Delta State eliminated that major, along with 20 other degree programs , including history, English, chemistry and music. Youngstown State University in Ohio, for instance, axed Italian, religious studies and other majors in 2021 , then six more three years later.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Mutualism and trade-off help explain the evolution of human life history. 1401949111 Investigates the cooperative division of labor between sexes and its role in extending human life history traits. Current Anthropology, 26(2), 223–246. A natural history of human morality. Current Anthropology, 50(1), 51–74.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Deciphering the Plaques: A History of Theories Since the 1800s, scholars have speculated about the meaning of these artifacts, numbering around 1,626 recovered to date. Related Studies These articles expand on themes of material culture, identity, and the anthropological interpretations of Iberian engraved plaques.

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Anthropology.net

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. These were once living people, with families and histories.

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Sapiens

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. The reason lies deep in human history. were not the result of scientific investigation.

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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. By way of this maneuver, (settler) environmentalists attempt to claim innocence vis-à-vis an ongoing history of land expropriation, enslavement, and profit-driven growth from which they continue to benefit.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 16, 2024

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.” The genomic history of southeastern Europe."

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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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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

On Rusinga Island, a grassroots group is celebrating the field assistants who helped find famous fossils and inspiring future generations to study science and ancient history. In 2021, Siembo, along with local anthropologist and co-author George Umoja and other like-minded Rusingans, started the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization (RIPO).

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The evolution of the human brain is one of the most remarkable chapters in our species' history. 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.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Largest Dataset to Date The researchers analyzed the most extensive dataset of human fossil evidence ever compiled, spanning seven million years of evolutionary history. Source: Current Anthropology. However, the new study challenges this idea, presenting a more nuanced perspective of incremental growth. Source: F1000Research.

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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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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

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. Yet, this history continued bleeding into the present. The rest is history. Angie Heo is the section contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Religion.

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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. History and Civics scores for eighth-grade students sounded an alarm: scores have dropped by an average of five points since 2018 and nine points since 2014.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

User data, in turn, is potentially any information generated via our digital interactions or digitally recorded about us; it might include anything from text conversations to biometrics to credit history—along with any subsequent algorithmic inferring, interpreting, and predicting (however accurate or inaccurate) of our behaviors and attitudes.

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