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. Studying human bodies provides a deep historical perspective on social dynamics whose echoes remain with us today.

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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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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

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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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

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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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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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.net

DECEMBER 14, 2024

published in Journal of Human Evolution 1 , delves into the comparative morphology of the inner ears of Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus africanus , uncovering intriguing differences that illuminate aspects of their behavior, ecology, and evolutionary trajectories. africanus and modern humans. Recent research by Smith et al.,

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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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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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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

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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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

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.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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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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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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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These screenshots were taken in 2023. There was a trend in news coverage of this project which minimized our disciplinary expertise (human biologists and anthropologists who study menstruation), while elevating the dismissive commentary of many MDs who were not specialists in menstruation. 3a, from February 24, 2021, at 2:20 p.m.),

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2025

An anthropologist and poet reflects on a journey of return that tells a larger story about human connection, acts of Indigenous solidarity, and the potential for repair within anthropology. IN 2023, I BEGAN the process of consultation toward repatriation on behalf of the anthropology department.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways. This research challenges prevailing assumptions about speciation, offering a more nuanced framework for interpreting the evolutionary history of modern humans and their closest relatives. Journal : Quaternary Science Reviews , 2023. ” Dr. .

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NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Among the latest findings, researchers have uncovered bone needles crafted from the remains of fur-bearing animals, suggesting these ancient humans produced garments that helped them survive cold climates.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A recent study published in Evolution and Human Behaviour 1 challenges conventional narratives about gender roles, revealing a surprising level of equality in how work and leisure are shared in hunter-gatherer societies. Credit: Evolution and Human Behavior (2024). Nature Human Behaviour, 5(9), 1195–1205. Pontzer, H.,

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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. Madiha: I dont even feel human sometimes Madihas experiences sharply contrast Hamzas. I dont even feel human even sometimes.” Born to African immigrants, she grew up in a small European town.

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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

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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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. 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

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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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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MARCH 4, 2025

Through this work, drawing on knowledge from human skeletal biology, anatomy, and archaeology, we often confront the immense social and racial inequalities that can play a role in the circumstances of ones death. But forensic anthropology testimony is only one aspect of our job. We are humans asking questions about the world around us.

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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

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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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

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The humanities taught me I could do it. The simple message that majoring in the humanities pays off is being pushed aggressively by this university and a handful of others; they hope to reverse decades of plummeting enrollment in subjects that teach skills employers say they need from graduates but arent getting.

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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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