Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. This new research confronts that narrative, positioning children as active creators whose unique contributions have long been overlooked.

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Sapiens

APRIL 8, 2025

Their doctoral research focuses on trans forms of creative expression in the Puerto Rican ballroom scene. Their work centers around a multimodal and performance-based ethnographic installation called the Kiki Ball del Palabreo held in Puerto Rico in 2023. Dozandri Mendoza is a Ph.D.

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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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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 crowd laughed and jeered. He often structured his talks as rebuttals to his most strident critics.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Each graduate student brings their own specialized research focus to the table, enriching the legacy of the SWP. The post Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School first appeared on Teaching Anthropology.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As an anthropologist, I understand that reflection upon one’s positionality is an important part of the research and writing process. as a researcher who has conducted over 300 studies and analyses of Afro-descendants in the U.S., So, it is with reflexivity that I approach the topic of Black female entrepreneurs in the U.S.:

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Recommendations for anthropology programs from the Anthropology Career Readiness Network In January 2023, the Anthropology Career Readiness Network conducted two illuminating focus groups with undergraduate and graduate anthropology students to gain insight into their perspectives on career preparation and the transition from school to work.

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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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NOVEMBER 25, 2023

I co-chaired a panel at the 2023 meeting of the American Anthropological Association titled “The America Animal.” At the panel, I presented part of my research on Texan-javelina relations. PowerPoint: johnsonap-making-pigs-dirty Download

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JANUARY 12, 2024

A research team at the University of Kent, led by anthropologist Lisa Dikomitis and psychiatrist Sukhwinder Singh Shergill , established a Sikh mental health research program to assess factors influencing mental health in Sikhs. This audio documentary was created with recordings made during ethnographic fieldwork in 2022–2023.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Recent research by Smith et al., Recent research by Smith et al., By analyzing the otolithic organs—the utricle and saccule, which are critical for detecting movement and orientation—the researchers reveal key distinctions between these two South African hominins. robustus and A. robustus and A.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Previously, she was NPS chief historian for the southeast region, managing history and cultural anthropology programs for 67 national parks, and earlier served as regional program manager for the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. Turkiya Lowe is National Park Service national chief historian. Motley, Jr.,

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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 Research backs up what Carter perceived — that exposure to people with different voices and experiences yields better learning. I wanted to work on that: How do I code switch? It’s bragged about, even marketed.

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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. Research interests include social movements, social justice and cultural genocide.

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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. Gut , gutjnl-2023-331594.

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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% The post Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal appeared first on Anthropology News. Third point. Sub-Saharan Africa experienced an 11.6 increase in South Africa. Reconnect to essay.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

My research examines religious environmentalism in Mainland China and Taiwan today—how religious cosmologies, ethics, dietary practices, and rituals may contribute to an alternative ontology of environmental protection that slows climate change. Lu Meihuan of the Department of Anthropology at National Tsinghua University.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Recent research delves into this enigmatic aspect of our ancient relatives, spotlighting the conundrum surrounding their supposed carnivorous inclination and raising new puzzling findings. The question of what Neanderthals consumed has long intrigued scientists, unearthing a paradox within their dietary habits. What exactly is he eating?

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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. I was in Accra, Ghana, for my field research at the time, and the other participants were located in Oslo, Norway. Credit: ‘å falle mellom to stoler’ (2023) Jelsen Lee Innocent.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Summer, 2023 Rehearsal Performance Day As the performers took the stage, the floor-to-ceiling digital screens behind them transformed into Inner Mongolia’s landscape: under a serene blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds, vast expanses of green grasslands stretched as far as the eye could see. Credit: Fieldwork sketch by Skylar Hou.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In January of 2021, I was employed as a postdoctoral researcher in a division of public health at a medical school. This sparked my interest as it dovetailed with my ongoing research about factors that influence menstrual cycles, such as energetic stress or immune stress. These screenshots were taken in 2023.

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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. While the U.S.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. The researchers argue that interbreeding alone should not determine species classification.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 18, 2025

“We’re looking at a highly structured social and cognitive event,” said zooarchaeologist Jarod Hutson of the MONREPOS Archaeological Research Center in Germany. ” Further Reading and Related Research Morin, E., Current Anthropology , 65(5), 876–921. It was cooperative planning.”

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Anthropology.net

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. An eyed needle made from the bone of a red fox found at the LaPrele archaeological site in Wyoming’s Converse County.

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Sapiens

APRIL 15, 2025

Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias is a postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary anthropology at the University of Cambridge. 2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter Man the Hunter Nearing 60: An Interview With Richard B. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

By examining the Mbendjele BaYaka of Congo and the Agta of the Philippines, researchers uncovered dynamics of cooperation and fairness that contrast sharply with modern industrial and agricultural societies. Related Research These studies build upon the concepts of labor division, cooperation, and bargaining dynamics in small-scale societies.

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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. But because his 1984 paper appeared in a journal published in East Germany, the research did not reach global scientists or publics.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

During my fieldwork in 2020, shipbreaking yard owners were wary of foreigners (particularly journalists, NGOs, and researchers) and their use of images of shipbreaking to raise awareness outside of Bangladesh of the spectacular violence and environmental pollution it causes.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

To approach engagements like the Joe Rogan Experience, I and other scholars must arm ourselves with science communication strategies , which research has shown can debunk misinformation in the current fake news environment. In January 2023, Hancock and I agreed to sit down together on Rogan’s podcast. Hancock invited a direct debate.

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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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MAY 7, 2024

1940–2023 George Roth died on December 11, 2023, from a rare disease, CIPD, which is similar to ALS. He majored in anthropology at Reed, and greatly enjoyed madrigal and other singing. After a few years of junior college teaching, he enrolled in the anthropology PhD program at Northwestern University.

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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. In 1998, Werner became professor emeritus of anthropology at Northwestern.

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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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