Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

In 2021, these megafires earned Bolivia third position among countries suffering intense forest losses from fire. Jesús belongs to Bolivia’s Criollo middle-class, and the land he bought up for Paradise Farm is located upon the traditional homelands of several Indigenous Guaraní, Ayoreo, and Chiquitanos communities.

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APRIL 30, 2024

This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks. By 2021, the state officially ended all remaining P2P lending platforms to curb risks from spreading to other financial sectors.

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JUNE 29, 2022

People of traditional college age, between 18 and 25, are also in the age group that is more likely than any other to experience mental illness , and most mental health conditions develop by the age of 24. She completely lacked interest in and motivation for her anthropology coursework, which she had previously loved.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects. What is solidarity? Perhaps above all, it is to be lived.

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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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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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. However, there is more that we can do.

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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.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

2024.05.003 According to Deb, the study highlights that both men and women in these communities enjoy comparable leisure time, challenging the traditional assumption that women bear a disproportionate workload. Current Anthropology, 26(2), 223–246. Current Anthropology, 50(1), 51–74. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.05.003

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As “straight” men, chacales embody “traditional” heterosexual values, and to help maintain this manliness, they also self-label as complemente activos (or “tops”) within their male sexual relations. appeared first on Anthropology News. Enrique broke the stillness by lamenting, “How I wish I had a chacal like that.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Revisiting Assumptions About Brain Evolution Traditional views of human evolution suggested that brain size underwent sudden, transformative increases between species, akin to major technological leaps. Source: Current Anthropology. Source: F1000Research. A Farewell to the Encephalization Quotient Van Schaik, C. Source: BioRxiv.

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Anthropology.net

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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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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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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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. After decades of Soviet-Communist rule that stifled religious learning, Uzbeks desired to rectify their lineage and relationship to the Islamic tradition.

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