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Knowledge / Ignorance and Caring About the Food We Eat and Study

Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Ariana Gunderson is a PhD student in Anthropology at Indiana University and the Anthropology News Section Editor for SAFN. Its okay to find your one niche in advocacy because it all comes together at some point. I’m a proponent of advocacy and policy, and thinking about things at the larger level.

Anthropology

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Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The central goal of the Tibetan exile government’s schools is to instruct children in Tibetan language, history, and Buddhist culture, given that, within Tibet, the Chinese government limits access to traditional Tibetan monastic educat ionand criminalizes advocacy for secular Tibetan medium education.

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

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. Josh Meyer is the section contributing editor for the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.

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A Conspiracy of Democratic Repair

Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Any opposition is thus confronted with the daunting contradiction wherein their advocacy can be dismissed as being in conflict with the will of the people. The post A Conspiracy of Democratic Repair appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Development Anthropology and Anthropology of Development

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 26, 2020

Development Anthropology Vs Anthropology of Development Development has been seen as a mechanism of social change which is a) associated with postwar reconstruction of underdeveloped areas of the world, b) a mechanism of domination of south by north, i.e. neo colonialism, and c) something that has a close link with capitalism’s need for new markets.

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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two.

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Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws. What’s next?”

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Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

His advocacy for the polygraph backfired when he testified in defense of James Frye , a Black man who had recanted a murder confession. appeared first on Anthropology News. Marston said the polygraph showed that Frye was telling the truth when he said he was innocent of murder. The post Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

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Notes from the UNI Education Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Anthropology professor at UNI, directs the New Iowans Center. University research and policy in an era of advocacy philanthropists and agenda-setting organizations. Children said ‘welcome to my neighborhood, Mr. Rogers.’ ’ The dreams and innocence of children will outlive us all. Life goes fast, my friends, use it well.

Education

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A Reliable Narrator

Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s a back-and-forth, an exchange of questions and answers, a moment that often calls for self-advocacy (for which an applicant would need to recognize themselves). The post A Reliable Narrator appeared first on Anthropology News. The problem, of course, is this isn’t how an asylum interview operates.

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Fighting for Justice for the Dead—and the Living

Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

A group of forensic anthropologists argues their field must reject the myth of pure objectivity and challenge systemic inequities through advocacy and activism. The AAFS did not issue a formal statement on its anti-advocacy position. This is the flagship U.S.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

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. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

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Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care

Anthropology News

MARCH 10, 2025

Thus, IDC builds overall research capacity including for anthropologists and anthropology students. The post Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care appeared first on Anthropology News. ” Science Insider , January 6.

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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Knowledge / Ignorance and Caring About the Food We Eat and Study

Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

A Conspiracy of Democratic Repair

Development Anthropology and Anthropology of Development

Teaching social studies in a polarized world

Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

Notes from the UNI Education Summit

A Reliable Narrator

Fighting for Justice for the Dead—and the Living

Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care

As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

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