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

JANUARY 29, 2024

Anthropological poems from around the globe speak to people’s creative will, resistance, and resilience—and the significance of our shared humanity. ✽ In July 2023, SAPIENS put out a call for poems from within “ zones of conflict.” Many authors are anthropologists or students in anthropology. Indigenous anthropologist Jenny L.

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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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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In December 2023, I attended an online seminar featuring the anthropologist Ghassan Hage , a leading expert on race and migration. But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I had dinner with a friend, Claudia Mendes—a former colleague in Munich—and her family around New Year’s Eve 2023, and she told me, “This city is crisscrossed by wind corridors [ Frischluftschneisen ], channeling fresh air from green spaces on higher ground to the literal down town, the lower and the hotter parts of the city.”

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

American Anthropologist Ethnographic methods: Training norms and practices and the future of American anthropology Rosalyn Negrn, Amber Wutich, H. Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Michael G. Lacy, Amber Wutich, H. Russell Bernard, Kathryn S. Oths, Melissa Beresford, Shawna Bendeck, Julia R.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Among the many anthropological outreach efforts around the worldwhich are typically led from the top down or by cultural outsidersthis homegrown organization is unique. This underscores the benefits of community involvement in anthropological work for everyone from locals to international publics. Next come the questions.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 30, 2025

In 2023, I lived in Bimals village next to the Subansiri River in Assam, a central state of Northeast India. They, like most downstream residents, belong to one of several socio-economically marginalized groups , which the Indian government designates as Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Its a Friday morning in April 2023, and the beach is packed with people. But what Im witnessing is not a usual beach scene for Kourou, the coastal town in French Guiana where Ive been living for the past six months for my doctoral research in anthropology. Read the introduction to the series here.

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TCI

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 News

AUGUST 23, 2024

This article is based on Brooke Bocast’s book, If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa, which won the 2023 Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) Outstanding Book Award. Makerere University exemplifies the contradictions that define Uganda’s economic rise over the past several decades.

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