Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Intersectional Anthropology. I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. Here, I share about my class, “Intersectional Anthropology,” and reflect on some of the ways it has played into my career, while also acknowledging my privileges as a person who holds a Ph.D. I received my Ph.D. Many people in U.S.

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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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JANUARY 14, 2025

Germn Tsamarenda, the president of the Etsa Shuar Association, poses in front of his truck in November 2022. Over time, Salesian intrusion, brutal at first, moved away from repressive evangelization to support land demarcation, Indigenous self-rule, and cultural revival.

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Teaching Anthropology

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. Why and how it is done varies across cultures.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

From the audience, as an anthropologist-in-training afraid her fieldwork would amount to nothing, I was thrilled to hear a cultural-historical reference on the nose enough for me to easily interpret (ventriloquize?). This statement might seem at first glance to be in line with an account that considers history and cultural conditions.

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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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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 for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. Ethnology and ethnography developed, of course, dialectically.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Its about maintaining connectionto her culture and to those who gather for her dessert. 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. Her care isnt about perfectly replicating tradition.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But was its use during the Upper Paleolithic purely practical, or did it hold deeper cultural significance? 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.

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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 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. Additionally, their work often requires mediating between the clients wishes and a legal culture that favors familial ties and the rights of biological children.

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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

His life and work were dedicated to studying migration processes and their influence on the construction of cultural identity in Rio Grande do Sul. 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.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. JURASSIC PRESSURES The influence of pop culture on aDNA fluoresced with Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park in 1990. It seems Berger believes H.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Concluding Thoughts: Towards a Culture of Care Law 30490 the Law of the Elderlyin Peru stipulates that the countrys long-term care facilities should provide their residents with comprehensive care depending on their needs. It was a damp winter morning. I had decided to spend the hours before lunch with a resident called Miguel in Ward 4.

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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.

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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

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. It represents a key example of how Tibetan refugees have established institutionalized, international education that preserves, advances, and shares Buddhist culture and philosophy.

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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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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

PLATFORM OR PLOY After the release of Hancock’s 2022 Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse , archaeologists contested and condemned his claims through the forums of an open letter , news articles , op-eds , social media , and blog posts. I’m a relatively unknown scholar who can share the cultural achievements of past people around the world.

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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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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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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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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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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

His new book, “Surrounding Fort Knox, Including Southern Indiana,” showcases Van Stockum’s journey through the counties around Southern Indiana and Fort Knox and details the area’s rich natural and cultural history. Hitting almost every genre there is, Van Stockum has a book for everyone.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Credit: Martin Alarie, Agence QMI, Journal de Montréal, 2022-02-13 A blocked downtown Ottawa street during the Freedom Convoy. Mel Salm and Victoria Sheldon are the section contributing editors for the Society for Medical Anthropology The post Of Children and Big Trucks appeared first on Anthropology News. Merci infiniment.

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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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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

of its total population self-identified as LGBTQIA+ and is widely recognized as a queer region for having Muxe, or Mexico’s third gender , in 2022 Oaxaca was labeled the most dangerous state for LGBTQIA+ people in Mexico. appeared first on Anthropology News. of Mexico’s total population self-identified as LGBTQIA+.

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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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Anthropology News

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2022, the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) started operating the nation’s first satellite-tracking center in Guija-eup, across from the Doteul cave. Taras Fedirko and Whitney Russell are section contributing editors for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The limits of collections research and digital access flashed like a neon sign when we first partnered as graduate students for an undergraduate course on museum anthropology and community collaboration. Caring by Museums Museum stewardship has established boundaries care for collections.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2024

It was a beautiful day in October 2022, and the leaves were turning vibrant shades of red and yellow. Credit: South Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare The Infographic of 2022 Suicide Motives by Gender and Age Group in South Korea. Aaron Su and Jieun Cho are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Sister Kampole, Senior nursing officer via a WhatsApp call with author in 2022 Bedsiders are unpaid family caregivers who work alongside nurses and other hospital staff to provide care to patients in the crowded and under-resourced hospital environment.As Sister Kampole told me, bedsiders are integral to the structure of hospital care.

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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. A Decline in Civic Understanding The 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) U.S. This infusion of resources is a game-changer for educators and students alike.

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