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NOVEMBER 25, 2023

I co-chaired a panel at the 2023 meeting of the American Anthropological Association titled “The America Animal.” ” Abstract: Other-than-human animals comprise a large part of the social and ecological fabric of our lives in ways that are often unexpected or unnoticed.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Recommendations for anthropology programs from the Anthropology Career Readiness Network In January 2023, the Anthropology Career Readiness Network conducted two illuminating focus groups with undergraduate and graduate anthropology students to gain insight into their perspectives on career preparation and the transition from school to work.

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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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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The post Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School first appeared on Teaching Anthropology. Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Issued: January 19, 2024 Response deadline: February 2, 2024 Pitch responses: February 7, 2024 First drafts due: February 21, 2024 For our second issue of 2024, Anthropology News invites you to explore the anatomy of deception and dissect the truths and untruths that form our understanding of reality. What forms do these deceptions take?

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MAY 7, 2024

1940–2023 George Roth died on December 11, 2023, from a rare disease, CIPD, which is similar to ALS. He majored in anthropology at Reed, and greatly enjoyed madrigal and other singing. After a few years of junior college teaching, he enrolled in the anthropology PhD program at Northwestern University.

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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. The post Curating Immigrant Life: A Praxis of Care appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

1935-2023 David C. Grove, 1935-2023 David C. Grove, Jubilee Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Courtesy Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, passed away on May 24, 2023, at the age of 87 after a long illness.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 18, 2024

(1928–2023) Oswald Werner, who was with the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University for over 30 years, died at the age of 95 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on March 26, 2023. In 1998, Werner became professor emeritus of anthropology at Northwestern.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In autoethnographic work, the researcher conducts anthropological fieldwork on himself/herself/themselves and their experiences. As described by anthropologist Elizabeth Chin, “ Using autoethnography, I turn my anthropological skills toward my own life and experiences, making myself the object of study. ” We must thrive.”

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

At the time, the Ministry of Industries and the government of Bangladesh were seeking to reform the country’s shipbreaking industry so that Bangladesh would be in a position to ratify the 2009 “Hong Kong Convention for Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling” (HKC) by 2023.

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was invited to speak in a Pardee Keynote Symposium on “Encouraging Positive Mental Health in the Geosciences” at the 2023 Geological Society of America meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. Research from King’s College London reported that mental health crises among university students nearly tripled between 2016 and 2023.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 12, 2024

The research program started in the spring of 2022 with an anthropological study in one large Kent Sikh community, examining health beliefs and experiences of migration and racism across different generations of Sikhs. This audio documentary was created with recordings made during ethnographic fieldwork in 2022–2023.

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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. Josh Meyer is the section contributing editor for the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.

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MARCH 19, 2024

1944–2023 Karen Donne (Kaddee) Vitelli died on September 12, 2013, at the age of 79 in the town of Dresden, Maine, where she had been living since her retirement from Indiana University in 2006. Letters from the Field 1968–1974 (2023). Allen) The post Karen Donne (Kaddee) Vitelli appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2024

1947–2023 Dr. Karen Ito was a dedicated anthropologist, committed to promoting the understanding of the diversity of human cultural experience, with significant and wide-ranging contributions to the field of anthropology. She studied anthropology at UCLA, earning her BA in 1969, MA in 1973, and PhD in 1978.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Previously, she was NPS chief historian for the southeast region, managing history and cultural anthropology programs for 67 national parks, and earlier served as regional program manager for the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. Turkiya Lowe is National Park Service national chief historian.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Motivated to address the localized effects of climate change, we formed a collective called Yāmāl in the summer of 2023. The collective aims to explore the intersection of craft, anthropological collaboration, and speculative futures in the Persian Gulf region. Credit: Mohsen Mehdipour A mountainous landscape near Laft, Qeshm Island.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Although publicly available chatbots had only been in the mainstream for one semester when we surveyed (fall 2023), 71% of students indicated they thought that GenAI would become an essential part of most professions. For example, H.R.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Standing with one hand tucked into a front pants pocket and her other hand holding an iPhone, Salva poses and smiles in front of a bathroom mirror in a selfie she posted to her Instagram story during July 2023. Credit: Breanna Escamilla To preserve the anonymity of Salva the July 2023 Instagram story is recreated here by the author.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Credit: Murtaja Lateef Souk al-Shorja, Baghdad’s oldest market, summer 2023. During a brief visit to Iraq in the heat of summer 2023, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared , “The era of global boiling has indeed begun.” Credit: Murtaja Lateef Al-Sinak Street, summer 2023.

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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. For example, in 2023, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and colleagues made staggering claims.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In April 2023, the patient had a surgical biopsy of the area and was diagnosed with “high-grade adenoid cystic carcinoma”—a parotid gland malignancy with a high propensity for invading nerves. Credit: Ash Marinaccio Hair Loss: Week Two, August 13, 2023 I am also warned that my hair will get “patchy” in the region receiving treatment.

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APRIL 4, 2024

The ribeye was served on Owamni by the Sioux Chef’s Fall 2023 menu. Ariana Gunderson is the section contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition The post On Staff Meal: Fieldwork Reflections of a Line Cook-Anthropologist appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2024

Recent research 1 conducted by interdisciplinary teams from Würzburg University Hospital (UKW), Homburg University Hospital (UKS), and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (MPI-EVA) aims to shed light on the genetic basis of liver steatosis through an archaeogenetic lens. Gut , gutjnl-2023-331594.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Two Truku indigenous women in the left foreground smile at the camera, showing off their (temporary) black facial tattoos, put on for the occasion of the Fall 2023 Thanksgiving Festival. Lu Meihuan of the Department of Anthropology at National Tsinghua University. A third woman has her back to the camera, and obscures a fourth woman.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. This investment represented a tripling of funds dedicated to these subjects in 2023, with continued allocation in the 2024 federal budget. million to $23 million as grants available to states.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Previous analyses of Neanderthal remains, such as the 2022 study 1 led by Klervia Jaouen at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, have consistently indicated a high proclivity for carnivorous consumption. However, the case of Neanderthals stands as a peculiar riddle in the annals of dietary science. link] 2 Jaouen, K.,

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APRIL 30, 2024

Summer, 2023 Rehearsal Performance Day As the performers took the stage, the floor-to-ceiling digital screens behind them transformed into Inner Mongolia’s landscape: under a serene blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds, vast expanses of green grasslands stretched as far as the eye could see. Credit: Fieldwork sketch by Skylar Hou.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

decline in ad spending in 2023, according to WARC, with a modest recovery expected in 2024, primarily driven by 6.1% The post Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal appeared first on Anthropology News. Third point. Sub-Saharan Africa experienced an 11.6 increase in South Africa. Reconnect to essay.

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Perspectives in Anthropology

JANUARY 31, 2023

By Jehron Muhammad Every year, including 2023 we in the United States celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights icon Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The celebrations frequently focus on Dr. King’s dream of ending discrimination in America.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

I hadn’t had many interactions with white people,” said Carter, now a senior majoring in anthropology and cell biology. “I But as admissions officers judge the means and merits of applicants for the Class of 2023, what should they look for? I wanted to work on that: How do I code switch? It’s bragged about, even marketed.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada My Introduction to Anthropology course concludes with a unit on sustainability, which covers topics like globalisation, food security, and diet. 27 Feb 2023) Fast and Pluribus: Impacts of a Globalizing McDonald’s. References Han, D. (27

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada My Introduction to Anthropology course concludes with a unit on sustainability, which covers topics like globalisation, food security, and diet. 27 Feb 2023) Fast and Pluribus: Impacts of a Globalizing McDonald’s. References Han, D. (27

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JUNE 27, 2024

In 2023, we witnessed a tragic surge in migrant deaths along migratory routes worldwide, marking it as one of the deadliest years on record according to the statistics from the Missing Migrant Project , with an estimated more than 8,000 cases.

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Teaching Anthropology

JANUARY 13, 2023

I see even more challenges in a discipline such as anthropology where active learning and fieldwork are the primary pedagogy. This inaugural TA blog in 2023 is full of questions rather than answers. I think this is probably fitting as we navigate teaching anthropology in this post-pandemic learning environment.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

​​​ “Å falle mellom to stoler”: Africans in Norway In February 2023, I joined a Zoom call organized by my friend, Jelsen Lee Innocent. Credit: ‘å falle mellom to stoler’ (2023) Jelsen Lee Innocent. Credit: ‘å falle mellom to stoler’ (2023) Jelsen Lee Innocent. Moss, Norway: Hverdag Books, 2023.

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