Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

Linguistic bottlenecks and demographic echoes The study builds on a long-standing hypothesis in historical linguistics and evolutionary anthropology—that migration events, especially those involving small founder populations, reduce linguistic diversity. In this case, however, the origin is likely in the north.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 1, 2025

The Bone Archive of Human History If genes are blueprints, skulls are blueprints weathered by time. Yet the ancient record, preserved in bone, reminds us that the human face has always been a product of history—a moving target shaped by who we are, what we eat, and where we go. Related Research Olalde, I.,

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

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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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

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?

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Click here for more details Aspects of the preservation and conservation of cultural intangibles include: folklore oral history language preservation Further reading: 1. These include objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science or technology of a specified culture. New York: Thames and Hudson 2. Deborah M.Pearsall (Ed.)

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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. There were also many articles on Chalcatzingo and the place of Olmecs in Mesoamerican history.

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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

How do you study Blackness in a place that denies its local history of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black structural violence? One of the challenges we face as African Norwegians is that our history in the country we have come to call home often is not well known, both within and outside our communities. Why Can’t We Have Nice Things.”

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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. In my work, I do not try to balance the blood-tinged scales of history, nor do I write toward retribution. The time for that has passed.

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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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Cunha resided in Lajeado and served as a tenured professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) , where he worked in the Department of Education Foundations and in the Graduate Programs in History and Education.

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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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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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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

I wondered if any people before me who utilized his remains for their research had ever pieced together his storyor even contemplated how he got to the Natural History Museum in London. Nevertheless, this history is worth confronting. What hidden traumas may have been endured by all the others now housed beside him?

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Anthropology News

APRIL 25, 2025

Lessons on Race, the Supreme Court, and the Legacy of Franz Boas Credit: National Archives at San Francisco Hin Lun Jow, Certificate of Identity 43195, issued after he entered the U.S., Racial segregation and immigration were intertwined political issues, and the discipline of anthropology was thick in the middle.

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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. As university professors, we return to questions of teaching care as we develop institutional spaces for object-based student learning.

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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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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

This has a history. In this article, I explore this history and the series of political and economic processes that have made bedsiding in Zambia into what it is today. Through archival research at the Melville J. The history of hospital care has also created a situation where bedsiders and patients may not trust hospital staff.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Read more from the SAPIENS archives: “ Living as Stateless Palestinians in Jordan.” Rereading what I wrote then about deaf students at the ASDC while witnessing the flattening of Gaza 10 years later feels chilling—a visceral reminder that the history of Palestine, as numerous commentators have observed , did not begin on October 7, 2023.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. and elsewhere.

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