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Bringing Anthropological Concepts to Life in a Virtual Peer Exchange

Teaching Anthropology

In this instance, the online platform Flip enabled cross-institutional, cross-border student interactions to discuss cultural similarities and differences— core subject matter of anthropology. Seventy undergraduate Anthropology students at The University of the West Indies (UWI) St.

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Call for Papers: Teaching and Learning with Generative AI and Emergent Technologies (Special Issue)

Teaching Anthropology

Deadline for abstract submission 16 th Sept 2024 Editors: Dr Natalie Djohari and Dr Gavin Weston, Bournemouth University. But as our teaching practices continue to change, a bigger question is emerging: how are these changes reconfiguring what anthropological knowledge is and how it is produced? Acceptance decision made by 23 rd Sept.

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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

MerrillSinger, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. As medical anthropologist Lance Gravlee observed, syndemics has achieved a broader reach than most anthropological ideas. 2024, COVID-19 Syndemics of the Global South: A World Divided.

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Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology

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How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? This Teaching Anthropology Special Issue will explore approaches to trauma-informed anthropology and to consider key emerging discussions around trauma-informed approaches more broadly.

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J. David Sapir

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1932–2024 Credit: David Plowden Photo of David Sapir in New Hampshire by David Plowden J. David Sapir, a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, West Africanist, and scholar of folklore and ethnographic photography, died August 31, 2024, at the age of 91. He majored in anthropology at Yale, writing a thesis on African folktales.

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Call for Papers: Anthropological Knowledge Production in the era of AIs and fast evolving technologies.

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RAI MAJOR CONFERENCE: ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION, 25 June – 28 June 2024, Senate House, University of London (in person conference). Call for papers – extended to 26th January 2024. What is the ‘anthropological text’ in light of AI assistance? How are these technologies changing our relationships with students?

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Rethinking Levallois: A 3D Look at the Precision of Middle Stone Age Tool-making

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Evolutionary Anthropology, 30 (4), 208-218. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 17 (4). PLOS ONE, 11 (6), e0158002. link] Blinkhorn, J., & Grove, M. Cultural transmission and Levallois variability: A model-based assessment." link] Samawi, O., & Hallinan, E. Quaternary Science Reviews, 319 , 108195.