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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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

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Ancient Hearths of Fuente del Salín Fire has long been a cornerstone of human existence, providing warmth, protection, and a means to cook food. The Gravettian mastery of fire provides a glimpse into the complexity of their cultural traditions, reshaping our understanding of how early humans structured their lives.

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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. On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 7, 2025

This scene, the vibrant landscape depicting the interplay between humans and the environment, is a window onto natural rubbers expansive, interconnected network of gendered labor, kinship, and care in a shifting climate reality. A cloud of blue smoke billowed out from the dense canvas of emerald. Credit: Chantal Croteau Fig.

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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

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

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. In order to listen well to them, to be moved, we must meet in person.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Over the past decade, a growing number of professors in fields as diverse as business, English and the performing arts have integrated their teaching with efforts to minimize their campuses’ waste and emissions, at a time when human-created climate change is fueling dangerous weather and making life on Earth increasingly unstable.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of difference? 2015), a loss of habitat (Corales, De Assis Montag, and Dunck 2022; Johnson et al. 2015), a loss of habitat (Corales, De Assis Montag, and Dunck 2022; Johnson et al.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com Over the last two million years, human ancestors have exhibited omnivorous tendencies, albeit with a prominent carnivorous streak. Unlike obligate carnivores such as cats, which solely derive sustenance from meat due to their inability to digest carbohydrates, humans thrive on a varied diet.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

There was a trend in news coverage of this project which minimized our disciplinary expertise (human biologists and anthropologists who study menstruation), while elevating the dismissive commentary of many MDs who were not specialists in menstruation. We will continue listening.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways. This research challenges prevailing assumptions about speciation, offering a more nuanced framework for interpreting the evolutionary history of modern humans and their closest relatives. Journal : Evolutionary Anthropology , 2022. ” Dr.

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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. It is a syndemic.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Journal : Scientific Reports , 2022. Journal : Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 2017.

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Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

For, I work extensively on Tanzanian heritage and human remains entrapped in Germany. FORGING A PATH OF LIBERATION THROUGH POETRY How can we, as artists and creative practitioners, access the past when a linguistic border separates us from human stories and speaks only of statistics and numbers? The time for that has passed.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

The human skeleton has long been a resource for science, offering insights into disease, migration, and evolution. Credit: Boris Hamer from Pexels A Legacy of Exploitation For centuries, human remains have been collected, often without consent, to serve scientific and medical purposes.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: In what is today Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago. Archaeological excavations at Mandrin Cave revealed the remains of both Neanderthals and modern humans.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived. Some universities are defunding and dismantling programs in archaeology , history , anthropology , art history , ancient languages , and classical studies. K–12 schools in the U.S.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

But tying us down strips our humanity away. Of course, care implies social and human relations between staff and residents. The post Amarrados: Physical Restraint in Long-Term Care Facilities for Older Adults in Lima, Peru appeared first on Anthropology News. It was a damp winter morning. Thats the only way for them to be safe.

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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. In 1989, a University of Oxford team claimed to have extracted, for the first time, DNA from ancient human bones.

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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. Such orders perpetuate a derisive, exclusionary category of the human whose forms of life (and sources of meat) must be protected.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

First, when the government office tasked with the Tuam excavation initiated an early DNA sampling campaign for elderly and sick presumed relatives of children in the grave, the genetic kinship analysis provisions of the 2022 Institutional Burials Act became an object of contention.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 25, 2025

Credit: Susan Brownell Earl Brewer in 1935 at the wedding of his daughter, Claudia Brewer Strite (with permission of Susan Brownell) Anthropology and Race The State Constitution of Mississippi stipulated that separate schools shall be maintained for children of the white and colored races. But it did not define colored.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The humanities taught me I could do it. The simple message that majoring in the humanities pays off is being pushed aggressively by this university and a handful of others; they hope to reverse decades of plummeting enrollment in subjects that teach skills employers say they need from graduates but arent getting.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Human teeth are small marvels of biology, carrying genetic signatures that reflect millennia of evolutionary change. Dr. Kaustubh Adhikari, a UCL researcher and one of the study’s authors, emphasizes the significance of teeth in understanding humanity's past.

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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. With its unparalleled size and complexity, the human brain consumes a disproportionate amount of energy relative to the rest of the body. Squirrel monkeys ( Saimiri sciureus ), another large-brain species.

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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. As Bill Brown states, The story of objects asserting themselves as things, then, is the story of changed relation to the human subject.

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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). In part, thats because space exploration can bring up conflicts between different ways of knowing, valuing, and relating to the cosmos.

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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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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

From 2022 to 2024, I conducted ethnographic and participatory research in migrant shelters and camps throughout Mexico City. Often, families must make difficult decisions and prioritize some human needs over others. Tricia Niesz is the section contributing editor for the Council on Anthropology and Education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. Published by Cambridge University Press, Public Humanities is pitched as a very large tent. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.

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