Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? This Teaching Anthropology Special Issue will explore approaches to trauma-informed anthropology and to consider key emerging discussions around trauma-informed approaches more broadly.

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JUNE 12, 2023

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? Discover what anthropology is all about by popping along to the British Musuem for London Anthropology Day. You’ll gain hands-on experience of what it is like to study anthropology.

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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. which are becoming increasingly user-friendly and flexible (Apostolidou, 2023).

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

Morais, Columbia Business School In the fall of 2023, I integrated generative artificial intelligence (AI) into my Columbia Business School course, Market Intelligence: The Art and the Science. Given AI’s rise, excluding it from an anthropological methods course would be a serious error of omission and a disservice to students.

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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. in 2023 from the University of Florida (UF) as part of the “COVID generation” of students.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Journal : Quaternary Science Reviews , 2023. Journal : Evolutionary Anthropology , 2022. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Sciences , 2007. Related Research Studies These articles highlight significant debates and evidence regarding Homo sapiens and Neanderthal speciation, evolution, and interrelations. DOI : 10.1002/evan.21955

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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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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Journal : Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory , 2023. Link : Taylor & Francis Summary : Integrates developmental psychology and social anthropology to decode artistic remains from the Upper Paleolithic. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0309107 Book Chapter : Art and Human Development , 2013.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Source: Current Anthropology , 2015. Source: Quaternary International , 2023. Faunal Resource Exploitation at Clovis Sites Analyzes faunal remains from Clovis sites to understand resource utilization and tool production strategies, including the crafting of utilitarian objects like needles.

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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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JANUARY 14, 2025

Earlier this year, I taught a graduate course on Amazonian anthropology and invited a group of young students from Bomboiza. According to some Shuar accounts, the church was built over the extended house of one of the regions most famed warriors after the warrior agreed to relocate and support Salesian missionary efforts.

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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

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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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 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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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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DECEMBER 18, 2024

During my 2023 fieldwork in China, I observed various entitiesincluding law firms, notary offices, legal service companies, nursing homes, and household management servicesattempting to fill this void. Aaron Su and Jieun Cho are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology.

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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 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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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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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 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

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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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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APRIL 16, 2024

In January 2023, Hancock and I agreed to sit down together on Rogan’s podcast. Some universities are defunding and dismantling programs in archaeology , history , anthropology , art history , ancient languages , and classical studies. Hancock invited a direct debate. The very next day I got a phone call: My cancer had returned.

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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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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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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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DECEMBER 14, 2024

Journal : American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 2000. DNH 7 meshes derived from MorphoSource (Neurocranium ID: 000163333; Splanchnocranium ID: 000163331). sapiens meshes, including the membranous labyrinth and maculae are derived from ( Smith et al., Illustrations in insets are modified from ( Smith et al., E., & Ross, C.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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