Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ For a digital anthropology seminar at the University of Denver, I asked my students: “Why do the pressures of our lived realities demand a response through poetry?”

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To his point, I find the current slew of handwashing videos on YouTube and other sites to be excellent resources for anthropology class projects, and utilize several in an activity that nurtures introductory students’ skills in critical thinking and observation. Students can watch the videos in groups or individually.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. Below, we present case studies from three anthropology courses using three different sets of AI tools.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

Germn Tsamarenda, the president of the Etsa Shuar Association, poses in front of his truck in November 2022. Earlier this year, I taught a graduate course on Amazonian anthropology and invited a group of young students from Bomboiza. Behind him, people from Bomboiza unload and share out Tsamarendas dragon fruit seeds donation.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Source: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2010. Source: Current Anthropology, 2017. Source: Nature Geoscience, 2022. The Late Middle Pleistocene Hominin Fossil Record of East Asia Synthesizes evidence from the Middle Pleistocene, emphasizing morphological diversity and evolutionary trajectories.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The interview assignment encouraged them to see anthropology in conversation with their own families.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 7, 2025

While the western coast of Thailand usually looks forward to a short four-month respite from the torrential rains of the wet season, in early 2022 the rains persisted through the dry months, flooding neighborhoods, eroding the beaches, and rotting the rambutan fruit blossoms. A team of arborists attending to recently felled rubber tree.

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Teaching Anthropology

JANUARY 13, 2023

There is no question that the unique conditions of the pandemic (such as social isolation, stress, anxiety, uncertainty of the times, anxiety) contributed to these evaluations (Abdullah & Kauser, 2022). I see even more challenges in a discipline such as anthropology where active learning and fieldwork are the primary pedagogy.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

After decades documenting others migrations, I turned to my own familys food stories in 2022, when my uncle, Chandran, passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Food as Care: Stories of Forced Displacement and Connection appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. As the antiquity of man became established in the mid-nineteenth century and anthropological inquiry began to focus on evolutionary questions, the need for better data became clear.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 17 (1). DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02126-x Mallol et al.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In this essay, I reflect on the experience of curating Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings as an undocumented immigrant anthropologist and lessons regarding the potential for curatorial anthropology as a praxis of care. Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art View upon leaving the gallery showing La Última Ofrenda, 2022.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Dawn broke over Bhaktapur on a summer morning in 2022. The impact of the 2015 earthquakes, a focus during my fieldwork, had reduced many of the city’s magnificent temples to rubble; however, in 2022 some of these temples had already been rebuilt and others were undergoing reconstruction. I was roused at 6 a.m.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

I met Nazneen, a twenty-five-year-old university student, in an eating joint tucked away from the busy and crowded lanes of Patna Market in 2022. ” Angie Heo is the section contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Religion.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Recent world migration reports note that, by the end of 2022, the total number of refugees was the highest ever recorded with modern statistical techniques. Ward discussed key anthropological findings regarding the effectiveness of translanguaging , or the intuitive mixing of multiple languages, in teaching and learning.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Josh Meyer is the section contributing editor for the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. This audio documentary was created with recordings made during ethnographic fieldwork in 2022–2023.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Ludwig, a 2022 graduate who now teaches Earth Science at Arlington High School about 20 miles from New Paltz, took Varga’s class and worked with her on an honors project to research and install the filters. Currently the fund has about $30,000.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Riley said the University of Texas System received a $50,000 grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to help fund the program, which aims to serve roughly 3,700 undergraduate students by the end of 2022. Related: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Richard Wrangham, a retired professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, noted 2 that starch grains can be detected in teeth dating back at least 50,000 years. Cooked starch grains found in the hardened dental plaque, or dental calculus, of ancient humans offer one of the more direct lines of evidence for early cooking.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 9, 2024

A Convergence of Science and Spirituality Published in PLoS ONE 1 , the study showcases the collaborative efforts of researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, the University of Calgary, the Autonomous University of Campeche, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She completely lacked interest in and motivation for her anthropology coursework, which she had previously loved. After she successfully completed the last two courses she needed, she finally earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology in the spring of 2020. It was a million little things. And she became overwhelmed by self-doubt.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In Delhi, temperatures have been rising for consecutive summers, reaching highs of 49°C (120°F) in 2022. Such “technical challenges” also constitute anthropological encounters with weather and technology. The post COOL TECH appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Previous analyses of Neanderthal remains, such as the 2022 study 1 led by Klervia Jaouen at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, have consistently indicated a high proclivity for carnivorous consumption. However, the case of Neanderthals stands as a peculiar riddle in the annals of dietary science. Leichliter, J.,

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In each book, Van Stockum studies the surrounding area’s anthropological history and the people’s culture to better understand Kentucky’s history. The third installment in the series is “Surrounding Kentucky Selected Essays,” which comprises a selection of Van Stockums essays previously published in The Sentinel News.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

There is a plethora of research showing how immune , inflammatory , energetic , and psychosocial stress can influence menstruation, and we describe some of it in our 2022 publication. The post Bleeding-Edge Praxis: Leveraging Anthropology and Feminist Science for Emerging Issues appeared first on Anthropology News.

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APRIL 11, 2023

2015), a loss of habitat (Corales, De Assis Montag, and Dunck 2022; Johnson et al. 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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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

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. A Companion to Medical Anthropology. Wiley Blackwell, 2022.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Journal : Evolutionary Anthropology , 2022. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Sciences , 2007. Pan-Africanism vs. Single-Origin of Homo sapiens : Putting the Debate in the Light of Evolutionary Biology Authors : Meneganzin, A., & Pievani, T. DOI : 10.1002/evan.21955 DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1302653110

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Related Studies These articles expand on themes of material culture, identity, and the anthropological interpretations of Iberian engraved plaques. Journal : Scientific Reports , 2022. Journal : Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 2017. Blanco, G., & Rodríguez-Rodríguez, E. Book : De Gruyter , 2008.

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Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

Despite my training and my experience with adjacent fields, such as anthropology and philosophy, I became increasingly disdainful of the sprint toward objectivityan oasis mirage, especially as a historian of Africa.

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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. Annual Review of Anthropology, 51 , 125-142.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

2 since 2022. Luciana Sanguin, Pontifcia Universidade Catlica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) The post Jorge Luiz da Cunha appeared first on Anthropology News. He was also awarded the Prmio Aorianos de Literatura in 2004 and was inducted into the Literary Academy of Vale do Taquari (ALIVAT), holding Chair No.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Performing Care as a Delegate Child It was a snowy day in late December 2022 when I accompanied Xiao Zhang on her visit to a nursing home in the Jing-Jin-Ji region of northern China. Aaron Su and Jieun Cho are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Evolutionary, cultural, and social processes that seem unimaginable if we try to apply them to sapiens populations, as we understand them through cultural anthropology, history, and archaeology. This is the challenge Thorin presents us with.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

When I visited in 2022, Jesús brushed aside my question of whether his business was shaped by his evangelical Christian faith, but the name of his farm and his Facebook posting of Bible verse suggested otherwise. Taras Fedirko and Whitney Russell are section contributing editors for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

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