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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Teaching Anthropology

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. Conceptual Jumping Off Point 2: Duncan Hines as Cultural Transmitter 5.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By reframing prehistoric creativity as an inter-generational endeavor, this study reveals that children were not just observers but active participants in shaping their cultural landscapes. Children, Metaphorical Thinking, and Upper Paleolithic Visual Cultures Author : Nowell, A. Journal : Childhood in the Past , 2015.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Tailored Garments and Human Expansion The production of tailored garments with closely stitched seams was a key cultural innovation that enabled early humans to survive harsh climates. Source: Current Anthropology , 2015. Source: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 2020. Source: Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 2021.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

Over time, Salesian intrusion, brutal at first, moved away from repressive evangelization to support land demarcation, Indigenous self-rule, and cultural revival. Earlier this year, I taught a graduate course on Amazonian anthropology and invited a group of young students from Bomboiza. Pachakutik is not faring much better either.

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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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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

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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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It is “an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience ”. In autoethnographic work, the researcher conducts anthropological fieldwork on himself/herself/themselves and their experiences. 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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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. JURASSIC PRESSURES The influence of pop culture on aDNA fluoresced with Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park in 1990. It seems Berger believes H.

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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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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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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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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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Sapiens

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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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

What does the stereotype tell us about educational culture and structure more broadly? The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. 6791 ( Artificial Intelligence Literacy Act of 2023 ) has been introduced in the US House of Representatives. Is it right? For example, H.R.

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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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Anthropology News

APRIL 4, 2024

He personally knew the time and labor involved in harvesting wild rice as well as the cultural significance of it, so the thought of letting any go to waste was saddening as well as disrespectful to the rice and ricers. The ribeye was served on Owamni by the Sioux Chef’s Fall 2023 menu.

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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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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

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. Werner was born in 1928 in Rimavska Sobota in what was then Czechoslovakia and is now the Slovak Republic.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. The post Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal 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

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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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. He is currently working on a study of Civil War visual culture for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bogart is professor emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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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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The Hechinger Report

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?

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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. The project invited students to consider how scientific knowledge develops and is situated in the historical and cultural dimensions of the times.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Kirsten Lindbloom, University of Wisconsin – River Falls Professor Kirsten Lindbloom (she/her/hers) is a faculty member in the sociology, criminology and anthropology department at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. Research interests include social movements, social justice and cultural genocide.

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Anthropology News

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. How do you write about Blackness while trying to resist the insidious pull of cultural and racial assimilation?

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While Tzu Chi promotes Buddhist veganism, Taiwan indigenous groups were hunting cultures that still love eating meat. What could Chinese Buddhism and indigenous cultures possibly share in terms of environmental outlooks? The government wants to protect wildlife populations in the mountains.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

They were also rehearsing for a performance of The Semi-Conductor Radio Made in Shanghai, a show designed to showcase Mongolian culture to tourists from across the country. The post The Semi-Conductor Radio Made in Shanghai appeared first on Anthropology News. Credit: Fieldwork sketch by Skylar Hou.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Outside of anthropology, he became known for his popular salvos on work and democracyincluding the breakthrough publication Debt: The First 5,000 Years and his activism within the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011. More trade books of Graebers writing were released posthumously in 2023 and 2024.

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

The pandemic also took a toll on other historically marginalized groups: For example, the annual rate of death by suicide among elders over the age of 85 in Clark County, Nevada, increased by 14 percent across the pre- and post-pandemic periods, according to research in forensic anthropology. In fact, many of us rarely, if ever, testify.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 28, 2025

Between 2018 and 2023, foreign labor grew by over 40% with a growing number of workers coming from South and Southeast Asia. Passing in Japanese Society N arratives linking blood to culture shape the experiences of migrants in Japan. Today, three million foreign residents make up about 3% of Japans total population.

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