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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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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

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Read more from the archives: “ Repatriation Has Transformed, Not Ended, Research.” The colonial frameworks under which museums were originally established allowed Western powers to amass vast collections of artifacts—often under dubious circumstances. However, not all these acquisitions necessarily warrant repatriation.

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An Ethnography of Textile Preservation: Caring for the Wardrobe of a Missing Person

Anthropology News

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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In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was Matrilineal

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Read more from the archives: When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows. The science of ancient DNA can now work to test further groups, helping to build a more complete picture of social structure in the pastperhaps returning to early scholarship before it was set off course by evolutionary theories in amateur anthropology.

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Making Anthropological Poetry Reel

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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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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

Anthropology for Beginners

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

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Call for Pitches: Care

Anthropology News

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations?