Remove 2021 Remove Economics Remove History
article thumbnail

When the Plow Turned the Tables: How Inequality Took Root in Human History

Anthropology.net

According to a new synthesis of archaeological, historical, and economic data published in the Journal of Economic Literature 1 , that change wasn’t just about economics. At the same time, the cultural embrace of hierarchy and individualism began to replace long-held norms of communal sharing and economic leveling.

article thumbnail

How Heavy Metal Fuels Indigenous Revival in Patagonia

Sapiens

Partway through our conversation on Indigenous history, music, and language, Calfunao lit up when he discovered that we were both metalheads. The national government also incentivized European settlement on these lands, with the goal of economically and ethnically incorporating these territories into the new Argentine nation-state.

Heritage 132
educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Tracing Roti’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures

Sapiens

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In many cases, making roti wasnt a willful choice but an economic necessityor part of unpaid domestic laborwithin a highly gendered and classed society. where I teach.

Cultures 127
article thumbnail

When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus

Sapiens

Perhaps most infamously, in 2021, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., As an archaeologist who teaches at Emory and conducts research in Iraq, I have grappled over these questions and decided yes: Learning with and from these objects can help amend their problematic acquisitionso long as that recent history pervades the lesson.

Museum 96
article thumbnail

Poor Pedagogical Choices: When task design derails your lesson

Becoming a History Teacher

They struggle to distinguish between high value and low value tasks (Hall, 2021). He therefore thought the students should be considering how to categorise causes as social, economic, political and intellectual, as well as grappling with notions of short- and long-term causation. History and Literacy in Year 7, History in Practice.

article thumbnail

Echoes Across the Sands: Bronze Age Cymbals Reveal Musical Ties Between Oman and the Indus Valley

Anthropology.net

While economic aspects of these interactions are well-documented, the social and cultural dimensions remain less understood. Credit: Antiquity Beyond Trade: Cultural Interactions and Musical Traditions The Arabian Gulf during the Bronze Age was a nexus of trade, with goods such as ceramics, beads, and metals exchanged between regions.

article thumbnail

How four universities graduate their low-income students at much higher rates than average

The Hechinger Report

I don’t know if there’s one thing — I think it’s a blend,” said Louie Rodriguez, vice provost and dean for undergraduate education at UC Riverside, where in the 2021-22 school year 46 percent of freshmen received Pell Grants and 75 percent of Pell recipients graduated within six years.

Tutoring 134