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Bringing Anthropological Concepts to Life in a Virtual Peer Exchange

Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 7, 2024

In this instance, the online platform Flip enabled cross-institutional, cross-border student interactions to discuss cultural similarities and differences— core subject matter of anthropology. Seventy undergraduate Anthropology students at The University of the West Indies (UWI) St.

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The Emic Perspective of Generative AI

Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

For anyone who has been teaching anthropology over the last two years, the latter will be of no surprise to you. (As While AI has simply not been in the hands of students long enough to have longitudinal data on its impacts, there is a growing slew of research that touts it as a learning tool for non-traditional students (such as Dai et al.,

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Bleeding-Edge Praxis: Leveraging Anthropology and Feminist Science for Emerging Issues

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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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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Consumer Anthropology and AI: Teaching Business School Students

Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix. Teaching Anthropology. 69 (3): 252-262.

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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

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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. Tsamarenda, a young man wearing a traditional red and yellow toucan feather crown, was personally delivering the seeds. We achieved all that, he said, without forgetting our sovereignty, our customs, and tradition.

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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Intersectional Anthropology. 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’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. I received my Ph.D.

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Food as Care: Stories of Forced Displacement and Connection

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Through these practices, they could not only evoke the flavors of home and pass down traditions but also begin mending wounds left by separation. Nala: Care as Reconceptualizing Tradition Payasam is the sweet, so it has to be sweet, Nala says of this creamy tapioca dessert, traditionally made for celebrations.

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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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The Firekeepers of the Ice Age: Unearthing the Gravettian Flame

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. This challenges long-held assumptions that early human technologies were purely reactionary adaptations.

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Balancing Acts of Care from Kitchen to Cosmos

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. ” This capacity, as demonstrated in Nazneen’s case, doesn’t reject traditional roles but rather reimagines them.

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The Moral Complexities of Delegate Children in Aging China

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. In their operations, the role of delegated children extends beyond traditional care work, which is typically limited to daily caregiving tasks.

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Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

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. 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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Fire’s Alter-Lives: Climate Change Adaption and Settler Futurity in Bolivia

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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Trying to give students in low-wage majors some extra skills they can cash in on

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. The median annual wage for these majors, one year out of college, is around $30,000 or less. .

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Students who drop out for mental health struggles are turning to pricey programs to find their way back

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

People of traditional college age, between 18 and 25, are also in the age group that is more likely than any other to experience mental illness , and most mental health conditions develop by the age of 24. She completely lacked interest in and motivation for her anthropology coursework, which she had previously loved.

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Dissertation Manuscript Outline: Human-Javelina Relations in Texas

Anthropology 365

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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¡Dispara las chelas!

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As “straight” men, chacales embody “traditional” heterosexual values, and to help maintain this manliness, they also self-label as complemente activos (or “tops”) within their male sexual relations. appeared first on Anthropology News. Enrique broke the stillness by lamenting, “How I wish I had a chacal like that.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

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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Material Fragility: A Rubric of Care

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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Colleges rebrand humanities majors as job-friendly

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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. Future combinations are planned with fashion and game design.

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Did Gut Microbes Help Fuel the Evolution of Large Human Brains?

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

"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. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 159 (S61), 196–215. DOI:10.1002/ajpa.22908

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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Frontiers and Failures: Kyrsten Sinema’s Political Aesthetics

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. Sinema’s border outfit, indexing the cowboy, attempts to frame herself within this tradition. Her slim margin was largely due to the work of intense Democratic organizing.

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Bringing Anthropological Concepts to Life in a Virtual Peer Exchange

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Bleeding-Edge Praxis: Leveraging Anthropology and Feminist Science for Emerging Issues

Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Consumer Anthropology and AI: Teaching Business School Students

Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

Food as Care: Stories of Forced Displacement and Connection

Ethnography and Ethnology

The Firekeepers of the Ice Age: Unearthing the Gravettian Flame

Balancing Acts of Care from Kitchen to Cosmos

The Moral Complexities of Delegate Children in Aging China

Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

Fire’s Alter-Lives: Climate Change Adaption and Settler Futurity in Bolivia

Trying to give students in low-wage majors some extra skills they can cash in on

Students who drop out for mental health struggles are turning to pricey programs to find their way back

Dissertation Manuscript Outline: Human-Javelina Relations in Texas

¡Dispara las chelas!

AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Material Fragility: A Rubric of Care

Colleges rebrand humanities majors as job-friendly

Did Gut Microbes Help Fuel the Evolution of Large Human Brains?

As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

Frontiers and Failures: Kyrsten Sinema’s Political Aesthetics

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