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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

Sapiens

In the Ecuadorian Amazon, an anthropologist explores how the Shuar people are betting on dragon fruit cultivation to reclaim economic autonomy and political sovereignty. In Ecuador, this has created a boom that is changing the economic fortunes of many Indigenous Amazonians. This article was originally published at YES!

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

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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The Felling of the Trees: Natural Rubber’s Network of Gendered Labor and Care

Anthropology News

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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Ethnography and Ethnology

Anthropology for Beginners

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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Curating Immigrant Life: A Praxis of Care

Anthropology News

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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Discomfort as a Transformative Ethnographic Method

Anthropology News

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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How colleges can become ‘living labs’ for combating climate change 

The Hechinger Report

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. It’s an invisible problem that not everyone is thinking about,” he said. You can notice a water bottle floating in a river.