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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. It is a syndemic.

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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

Sapiens

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Before Egbert went missing, scientists cast a copy of the child’s skull, allowing future researchers to study it. Archival research can be more accessible—and just as illuminating.

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The Integration of Family Bedside Care in Zambian Public Hospitals

Anthropology News

Through archival research at the Melville J. Jean Hunleth and Samar Al-Bulushi are the section contributing editors for the Association for Africanist Anthropology. The post The Integration of Family Bedside Care in Zambian Public Hospitals appeared first on Anthropology News.