Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

These include objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science or technology of a specified culture.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

” That insight—often stated in anthropological circles—is easy to romanticize but hard to quantify. They evaluated 163 cultural concepts previously suggested in the anthropological and linguistic literature, ranging from “snow” to “love,” “horses,” “ghosts,” and “taste.”

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Here the evidence from the archives is murky, but it appears that only Egbert’s skull and the teeth of Ksâr ‘Akil 4 were successfully extracted. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on Aug. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app. The post Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

JULY 27, 2024

After army service, in 1959, Brown returned to El Camino and declared anthropology as his major. He transferred to UCLA to continue his anthropology courses with M. One of his classmates was Carrie Chu, who was from Hong Kong and was studying anthropology and Southeast Asian history. Smith and Hilda Kuper as his advisors.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Grove, Jubilee Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Courtesy Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, passed away on May 24, 2023, at the age of 87 after a long illness. Grove Faculty Papers collection at the University of Florida Archive. 1935-2023 David C.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

His book, The Races of Europe (1899), is a prime example of this pseudoscientific approach to anthropology, but it was relatively non-controversial at the time. Ripley via the Internet Archive ) Ripley was a man of various talents. Ripley via the Internet Archive ) There were other categorizations, each as equally subjective.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We hope that “å falle mellom to stoler”—which includes a physical exhibition with sculptures created by Jelsen and two publications (one forthcoming) featuring archival images, interviews, and critical essays by collaborators—can contribute to this vital work.

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Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

A Tanzanian historian and poet conjures alternative engagements with Black African women who were marginalized by violent colonial histories and imprisoned in the archives. My Imagined Archive was where I could envision what conversations with those who do not appear in official records could sound like.

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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. It is a syndemic.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

The human urge to collect and preserve objects, what Jacques Derrida calls archive fever , takeson special significance when there is no body to bury, no grave to visit. The social life of these clothes had a shift, akin to the widely discussed binary shift from commodity to gift within anthropological discourse.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.”

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Throughout his academic career, Cunha had the opportunity to access previously unexplored sources and revisit archives and libraries in Germany, which allowed him to make significant contributions to migration studies.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Evolutionary, cultural, and social processes that seem unimaginable if we try to apply them to sapiens populations, as we understand them through cultural anthropology, history, and archaeology. Read more from the archives: “ What’s Behind the Evolution of Neanderthal Portraits.” This is the challenge Thorin presents us with.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Credit: Nikada/iStock (184617058) Files in a archive. emphasis added) Johnnie Mae Warren was much harder to uncover in the archive. Johnnie Mae was not the only Black woman I stumbled upon in the Afro-American Newspaper archive who would lose their life to self-power. Both were pronounced dead later at the hospital.

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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. Read more from the SAPIENS archives: Do Things Have to Be This Way?

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

To bring these animals lives to light, we pieced together archival information and animal names in zoo records. We came together with two other colleagues who noticed the same issues and co-wrote a piece for Evolutionary Anthropology. Halokos remains have been understudied because her museum label states captive.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The limits of collections research and digital access flashed like a neon sign when we first partnered as graduate students for an undergraduate course on museum anthropology and community collaboration. When community knowledge is disrupted, ties between museum collections and present-day landscapes require archival recovery.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This series brings together writing from several members of a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project called ARIES (Anthropological Research into the Imaginaries and Exploration of Space). Read more from the SAPIENS archive: Lessons From Marsand Jamaicaon Sovereignty.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Hearst Museum of Anthropology taken by colleague Linda Waterfield. Born and educated in New York City, he matriculated at Yale University in 1970, graduating in 1974 with a dual degree in art history and anthropology and a senior thesis on the Japanese tea ceremony. enthusiasm for the scholarship and artworks he loved so well.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 30, 2025

candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, my dissertation research brought me there to study how a hydroelectric dam, under construction since 2005, will impact the river and local residents in Assam and the neighboring state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

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.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Read more from the SAPIENS archives: “ Living as Stateless Palestinians in Jordan.” I’ve lived for close to four years in Jordan and have spent extended periods of time in Egypt, Lebanon, and other parts of occupied Palestine.

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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. and elsewhere.

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