Teaching Anthropology

JUNE 12, 2023

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? Discover what anthropology is all about by popping along to the British Musuem for London Anthropology Day. You’ll gain hands-on experience of what it is like to study anthropology. Curious about human evolution?

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching. Introduction: Multimodal anthropology and the politics of invention.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 5, 2025

The American Anthropological Association seeks applications for a new Editor-in-Chief (or Coeditors-in-Chief) of the associations flagship journal, American Anthropologist ( AA ), for a four-year term beginning January 1, 2027, with an additional year shadowing the current Editor-in-Chief, beginning January 1, 2026.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix. Teaching Anthropology. Human Organization.

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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. I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist.

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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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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

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. A Companion to Medical Anthropology. It is a syndemic.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Anthropology and taxidermy are not dissimilar practices. “People who are subjected to anthropological scrutiny,” Burman writes, “wonder, and justifiably so, what the anthropologists do with the extracted knowledge.” Anthropological writing does not have to imply immobility and lifelessness.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

It is also known as physical anthropology, which originally referred to the study of human biology within the framework of evolution and with an emphasis on the interaction between biology and culture. Physical anthropology is the original term, and it reflects the initial interests of anthropologists in describing human physical variation.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. Three challenges in teaching anthropology. Teaching Anthropology 1 (2), pp.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

RAI MAJOR CONFERENCE: ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION, 25 June – 28 June 2024, Senate House, University of London (in person conference). 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?

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 18, 2024

Anthropology has long been celebrated as a discipline that offers profound insights into human cultures, societies, and behaviors. As we navigate the complexities of the twenty-first century, anthropology faces an ever-evolving landscape that presents challenges and opportunities for renewal and growth.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The courses covered many domains—design, medicine, the environment—but most featured an anthropological flair, and most of the organizers had an anthropology background. I titled my course—one of the four core courses—“Tears of the Earth: An Anthropological Thinking Experiment.”

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ For a digital anthropology seminar at the University of Denver, I asked my students: “Why do the pressures of our lived realities demand a response through poetry?”

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old. Nash (1966), and the geographer Franklin (1969). What is a peasant?

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

He majored in anthropology at Yale, writing a thesis on African folktales. His early anthropological career was influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss. David came to the University of Virginia in 1973, where he taught for 34 years and was a pivotal figure in building the newly established Department of Anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 6, 2024

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JULY 24, 2024

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

A recent paper in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology urges anthropologists and anatomists to confront the legacy of human skeletal collections and calls for a new ethical framework that prioritizes transparency, community collaboration, and respect for the deceased. Annual Review of Anthropology, 51 , 125-142.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To his point, I find the current slew of handwashing videos on YouTube and other sites to be excellent resources for anthropology class projects, and utilize several in an activity that nurtures introductory students’ skills in critical thinking and observation.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

I turned back to my fragmented translation notes as a source for a project of documentary poeticsone where technical language is transformed and humanized into a poem to aid in demanding justice, in a similar vein as some anthropological poetry. The post Translation Notes appeared first on SAPIENS.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology (JONA) has just released Mark’s memoir, My Ideological Battle: Confronting Social Dogma with Anthropological Op-Eds. Did you learn anything about yourself, anthropology, or newspaper writing? Coming together in my pieces are my formal training in both economics and anthropology.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Psychology, Neurology, and even Anthropology all have had a louder voice in ‘education,’ which may explain why critical thinking seems to be so often missing from most school and curriculum design. This, to a degree, reduces the function of pure philosophy. There are exceptions, of course.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Current Anthropology , 53(S6), S000-S000. History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 28 (S6), 1–52. The Man Who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois. Harvard University Press. Dart and the "killer ape" hypothesis: Origins, impact, and legacy.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Journal : Evolutionary Anthropology , 2022. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Sciences , 2007. Pan-Africanism vs. Single-Origin of Homo sapiens : Putting the Debate in the Light of Evolutionary Biology Authors : Meneganzin, A., & Pievani, T. DOI : 10.1002/evan.21955 DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1302653110

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Related Studies These articles expand on themes of material culture, identity, and the anthropological interpretations of Iberian engraved plaques. Journal : Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 2017. Lives of Stone, Lives of People: Re-viewing the Engraved Plaques of Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia Author : Lillios, K.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

New research, published in Nature 1 by an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, delves into the lives of two neighboring Avar communities in Lower Austria. Their findings reveal an intriguing story of cultural integration despite distinct genetic divides.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

The social life of these clothes had a shift, akin to the widely discussed binary shift from commodity to gift within anthropological discourse. The post An Ethnography of Textile Preservation: Caring for the Wardrobe of a Missing Person appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Issued: January 17, 2025 Pitches due: rolling until February 7, 2025 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the theme of signal/noise. Read more about us here and consider how you might tell anthropological stories for a general audience as you consider the direction of your pitch.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A Revolutionary Theory in Anthropology Human culture is a remarkable, complex phenomenon, often seen as a defining feature that sets humans apart from other species. Unlike animal cultures, which are limited in scope and depth, human culture accumulates, adapts, and continually evolves, empowering our species to dominate the planet.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology , for instance, has been involved in the voluntary restitution of cultural artifacts and empathetic engagement with source communities since the 1960s—a model that Spain could learn from as it embarks on this journey.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Journal : Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 2019. Journal : Arctic Anthropology , 2020. DOI : 10.1007/s10745-021-00234-z Link : ResearchGate PDF Summary : Discusses early human intervention in orphaned pups, suggesting this behavior was foundational to the domestication process. DOI : 10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101081 DOI : 10.3368/aa.57.1.45

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The post Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School first appeared on Teaching Anthropology. Together, we look forward to maintaining a connection with the field school and continuing to learn from it.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.” “The Merging anthropology and journalism was attempted through the ‘70s into the aughts. Allen, ” Anthropological Methods Relevant for Journalists” by S. Grindall and Robin Rhodes.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

Lauren Crossland-Marr is the section contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. The post Reflections on the “Historicity” of Child Death at Ireland’s Former Mother and Baby Homes appeared first on Anthropology News. Note: All names other than those of public figures have been changed.

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