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. in 2023 from the University of Florida (UF) as part of the “COVID generation” of students.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Tsamarenda, a young man wearing a traditional red and yellow toucan feather crown, was personally delivering the seeds. We achieved all that, he said, without forgetting our sovereignty, our customs, and tradition. Later, they encouraged us to keep speaking our language and preserve our traditional dances.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As we continue this tradition, fostering a connection with the field school, we eagerly anticipate the ongoing journey of learning and growth it offers. 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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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

During my 2023 fieldwork in China, I observed various entitiesincluding law firms, notary offices, legal service companies, nursing homes, and household management servicesattempting to fill this void. Aaron Su and Jieun Cho are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In autoethnographic work, the researcher conducts anthropological fieldwork on himself/herself/themselves and their experiences. As described by anthropologist Elizabeth Chin, “ Using autoethnography, I turn my anthropological skills toward my own life and experiences, making myself the object of study. ”

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Motivated to address the localized effects of climate change, we formed a collective called Yāmāl in the summer of 2023. The collective aims to explore the intersection of craft, anthropological collaboration, and speculative futures in the Persian Gulf region. Credit: Mohsen Mehdipour A mountainous landscape near Laft, Qeshm Island.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 4, 2024

For over two years, working at Owamni, a James-Beard-award-winning Indigenous restaurant, and NATIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems), their partnering culinary nonprofit, has changed not only what I eat but when and how much. lunches) that fall before or after traditional times of eating. dinners or 4 p.m.

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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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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 But as admissions officers judge the means and merits of applicants for the Class of 2023, what should they look for? All of our traditional tools,” said Smith, “have to be reconsidered.”. 13, 2018.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. decline in ad spending in 2023, according to WARC, with a modest recovery expected in 2024, primarily driven by 6.1% Again, is anything ever really new? Third point. increase in South Africa.

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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

Despite minimizing traditional Buddhist scripture-chanting and rituals, I found Tzu Chi members were deeply religious, and their daily activities were highly ritualized. All the women are dressed in traditional costumes of white cloth with red, green, and yellow headbands, necklaces, and hair pieces.

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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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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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

2024.05.003 According to Deb, the study highlights that both men and women in these communities enjoy comparable leisure time, challenging the traditional assumption that women bear a disproportionate workload. Current Anthropology, 26(2), 223–246. Current Anthropology, 50(1), 51–74. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.05.003

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. Consequently, any traditional ethnic attire he wears inherently signifies Indonesian identity.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

That has helped boost undergraduate and graduate enrollment in Georgia Techs Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts by 58 percent since 2019, to 1,884 students in 2023 the most recent period for which the figure is available. The traditional argument for the humanities, Brookes said, has been, Well, it will make you a better citizen and person.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Revisiting Assumptions About Brain Evolution Traditional views of human evolution suggested that brain size underwent sudden, transformative increases between species, akin to major technological leaps. Source: Current Anthropology. Source: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Source: F1000Research. Püschel, T.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Some communities are entirely nomadic, while others have settled into farming villages, adopting new traditions while retaining core elements of their pastoralist identity. 2023) examined whole-genome data to trace the genetic echoes of the last Green Sahara period on Fulani and Sahelian populations. 📄 Citation : D'Atanasio, E.,

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Anthropology News

MARCH 1, 2025

After decades of Soviet-Communist rule that stifled religious learning, Uzbeks desired to rectify their lineage and relationship to the Islamic tradition. In 2023, as Egyptians hung decorative lanterns symbolizing the coming of Ramadan, I woke up to WhatsApp group messages about police raids targeting foreigners.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 26, 2024

In April 2023, the New York Times Magazine published a profile of her decision to leave the Democratic Party. Sinema’s border outfit, indexing the cowboy, attempts to frame herself within this tradition. Sarah Muir and Michael Wroblewski are the section contributing editors for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.

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