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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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The food she prepares carries the essence of her familys history and her fathers ingenuity, encapsulated in every unmeasured pinch of spice. Their shared history of displacement and nonlinear journeys maps itself in familiar tastes and rhythmsthough strangers before migration, they recognize home and feel cared for in their shared meals.

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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.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. The largest drop in the size of the chewing teeth in the history of human evolution occurred around 1.8 Homo erectus : The First Cook? link] 7 Zohar, I.,

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Cunha resided in Lajeado and served as a tenured professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) , where he worked in the Department of Education Foundations and in the Graduate Programs in History and Education. 2 since 2022.

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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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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. Such interest also distracted from the breakthrough’s Nobel-worthy value: answering scientific questions about species’ history and evolution.

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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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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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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. Pseudoarchaeology, or “alternative history,” draws major attention and casts itself as legitimate.

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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. The translocal nature of Tibetan diasporic kinship bonds has a history that extends beyond current transnational migrations. Who should care about a refugee’s language?

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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. 1 Lentz, D. Hamilton, T.

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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. If there are any places where a map doesn’t show the road very well, that’s where I’m going,” Van Stockum said.

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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. Activists in Jeju, like Choi and Hong, revisit the history of 4.3 The post Haunting Technoscientific Futures in South Korea appeared first on Anthropology News.

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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. Credit: Photograph by Smith, 2022 Winter in the Klamath River region, willows in dormancy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Nationwide, between 2012 and 2022 the number of undergraduate degrees awarded in the humanities English, history, languages, literature, philosophy and related subjects fell 24 percent , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. But its become an existential one. Talent-spotting, the college calls it.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The evolution of the human brain is one of the most remarkable chapters in our species' history. 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.

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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).

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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 This has a history. I use pseudonyms in this article for all participants.

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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. history and prompted a nationwide push for revision and improvement.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 26, 2024

On December 9, 2022, Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema published an op-ed, “ Why I’m Registering as an Independent ,” in The Arizona Republic. And it’s a persona that Sinema has a history of attempting to perform. Sarah Muir and Michael Wroblewski are the section contributing editors for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.

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