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A Poetics of Liberation: An Imagined Archive

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A Tanzanian historian and poet conjures alternative engagements with Black African women who were marginalized by violent colonial histories and imprisoned in the archives. My Imagined Archive was where I could envision what conversations with those who do not appear in official records could sound like. The archive was a burial site.

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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

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Read more from the archives: “ Repatriation Has Transformed, Not Ended, Research.” It follows the International Council of Museums’ 2022–2028 Strategic Plan for decolonizing museums and commitments Spain has made at international forums such as UNESCO’s Mondiacult 2022.

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Mapping Ancient Emotions: How Mesopotamians Felt and Expressed Their Feelings in the Body

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Steinert Book : Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East , 2022. Kipfer Journal : ZORA: Zurich Open Repository and Archive , 2017. Sibbing-Plantholt Book : Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East , 2022. PDF Link : uzh.ch PDF Link : Academia.edu Sadness and Grief in Akkadian Texts Author : I.

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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

As syndemics can be traced back in time through bioarcheology and archival research, described in contemporary disease crises through ethnography and epidemiology, and projected into the further as a result of the ongoing cascade of emergent infectious diseases, teaching syndemics allows a wide historic perspective on human health.

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Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025

Political Science Now

Read about previous grantees and their projects: 2020 Grants | 2021 Grants | 2022 Grants | 2023 Grants | 2024 Grants The post Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025 appeared first on. Collaboratively-authored projects are also welcomed. Applications are due May 6, 2025.

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Jorge Luiz da Cunha

Anthropology News

Throughout his academic career, Cunha had the opportunity to access previously unexplored sources and revisit archives and libraries in Germany, which allowed him to make significant contributions to migration studies. 2 since 2022.

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Unraveling a “Ghost” Neanderthal Lineage

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Read more from the archives: “ What’s Behind the Evolution of Neanderthal Portraits.” In 2022, after 32 years of archaeological research, our team had already revealed the existence of a first sapiens migration to European territory 10,000 to 12,000 before the first migrations previously recognized.