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. After all, experiencing a range of emotions makes us complex human beings.

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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. In order to listen well to them, to be moved, we must meet in person. prisons and jails.

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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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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. In 1989, a University of Oxford team claimed to have extracted, for the first time, DNA from ancient human bones.

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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. After the shooting, I was invited to co-author an article on academic trauma for the American Journal of Human Biology.

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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.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.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is author of Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America (1919). Bogart will provide a walking tour of New York City's Civil War-era monuments. Matthew Fox-Amato is assistant professor of history at the University of Idaho. Turkiya Lowe is National Park Service national chief historian.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com Over the last two million years, human ancestors have exhibited omnivorous tendencies, albeit with a prominent carnivorous streak. Unlike obligate carnivores such as cats, which solely derive sustenance from meat due to their inability to digest carbohydrates, humans thrive on a varied diet.

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Anthropology News

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

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Tzu Chi also extends sentience to Mother Earth, whom Master Cheng Yen frequently invokes as a suffering entity due to human destructiveness. 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.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy.

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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% But I guess one of my thoughts is that if you look through human history, the idea of an artist as being a career or a revenue generator, I mean, that’s really the exception. Third point. increase in South Africa.

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Anthropology News

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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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived. In January 2023, Hancock and I agreed to sit down together on Rogan’s podcast. Hancock invited a direct debate. The very next day I got a phone call: My cancer had returned.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Outdoor pollution (arising, in part, from burning fossil fuels, coal-fired power plants, oil and gas extraction, and fracking) was classified in 2015 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a group 1 carcinogen , meaning sufficient evidence exists to conclude that hazardous ambient air particle matter causes cancer in humans.

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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.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Her research examines the conditions for justice during internal armed conflict, human rights prosecutions, transitional justice in post-communist Eastern European states, gender equality in post-conflict settings, and justice efforts in democracies. Professor Lindbloom completed her M.A. in sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2024

In August 2023, during the first Republican primary debate, nominee Chris Christie unleashed an insult directed at rival Vivek Ramaswamy: “Hold on, I’ve had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like ChatGPT!” The public is in the process of, to use Lucy Suchman ’s term, “refiguring” the dividing line between humans and machines.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi in Tanimbar attire delivered the 2023 State of the Union Address. Credit: Biro Pemberitaan DPR RI President Jokowi in Tanimbar attire delivered the 2023 State of the Union Address. The post Treasuring Indonesian Culture; From Local Practice to State Political Ritual appeared first on Anthropology News.

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

In the first semester of 2023, we started with one intern. The Discourse Analysis Program was now fully standardized, and these term-long projects could fit together into a longer, overarching study like a relay race, helping us run the length of AI discourse over the course of 2023.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Together with Guldin and philosophers such as Michel Serres and Arden Reed, I also aim to bring the wider sense of the term meteor—as various atmospheric forces and events—back into the discourse of philosophy, humanities, and beyond. The idea of allying with nature in a “more-than-human” collaboration isn’t always pure.

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Sapiens

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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Sapiens

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. This is not far from reality.

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