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AUGUST 11, 2024

decline in ad spending in 2023, according to WARC, with a modest recovery expected in 2024, primarily driven by 6.1% And here in South Africa where Koffi Kouakou resides, a newly elected Coalition Government is still going through teething challenges of its own. Third point. Sub-Saharan Africa experienced an 11.6 Reconnect to essay.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Master Cheng Yen calls recycling work “self-cultivation,” thus making an ordinary labor that is paid when it is done at government recycling centers into a religious practice at Tzu Chi centers, where people cheerfully work for no pay. The government wants to protect wildlife populations in the mountains.

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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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Anthropology News

MARCH 28, 2025

Since the 1970s, Japanese society has increasingly relied on migrants to fill a variety of jobs, although the government has been slow to acknowledge or support them. Between 2018 and 2023, foreign labor grew by over 40% with a growing number of workers coming from South and Southeast Asia.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In his role as the head of state and government, President Jokowi transcends the identity of a mere political figure or official; he becomes a personification of the nation itself. President Jokowi in Tanimbar attire delivered the 2023 State of the Union Address. However, they do not play a central role in the Merti Dusun rituals.

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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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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Rereading what I wrote then about deaf students at the ASDC while witnessing the flattening of Gaza 10 years later feels chilling—a visceral reminder that the history of Palestine, as numerous commentators have observed , did not begin on October 7, 2023.

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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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JANUARY 30, 2025

In 2023, I lived in Bimals village next to the Subansiri River in Assam, a central state of Northeast India. The 2000-megawatt Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Dam (SLHEP) is the flagship project of the government of Indias ambitious but highly contested plan to build 168 hydropower dams in the region. (More water means more money.)

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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. Space happens in big European cities.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 history and prompted a nationwide push for revision and improvement.

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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. If Books Fail, Try Beauty contributes to three overlapping bodies of anthropological scholarship. Milly is smart in her game.

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MARCH 26, 2024

CAMERAS ON CARCERAL VIOLENCE In December 2023, as Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza entered its third month, the Israeli occupying forces (IOF) released photos and videos of military trucks crammed with Palestinian captives: stripped to their underwear, kneeling, blindfolded, and with hands bound behind their backs. My interviews bear this out.

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MARCH 1, 2025

While searching for a space to pray inside the crowded mosque courtyard, I wondered whether the security spectacle was meant to dishearten the acts of defiance sparked by Gazas bombardmentacts that had briefly challenged the governments repressive hold. The post Cairo between Dystopia and Umm al-Dunya appeared first on Anthropology News.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

In April 2023, the New York Times Magazine published a profile of her decision to leave the Democratic Party. Her cowboy outfit at the border fence—a site of cruelty, dispossession, and social and ecological genocide—directly referenced the frontier and its forced ownership by the US government.

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