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. Throughout his active research career, he was a dedicated and well-beloved teacher.

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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

I was in Accra, Ghana, for my field research at the time, and the other participants were located in Oslo, Norway. Thanks to the work of writers and researchers like Ivorian-Norwegian Yacoub Cissé and Franco-Cameroonian historian Olivette Otele, we now have books like 400 Years of Black Norway and African Europeans: An Untold History.

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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 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 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

OCTOBER 22, 2024

A new lineage of Neanderthals Our research published in Cell Genomics in September complicates this picture, revealing that there was not one but at least two lineages of Neanderthals. As the head of research at Mandrin Cave, I decided we proceed to excavate the body with tweezers. This is the challenge Thorin presents us with.

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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

His skull, resting among countless others in a drawer, looked like any other specimen preserved for research. 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.

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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. Rubrics are expressions of asymmetrical hierarchical relationships. One party outlines a set of expectations for another.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In a series of essays, a collaborative research project brings together space anthropologists to investigate how communities around the globe are grappling with the current boom in outer space exploration. 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

Due to the ongoing occupation, it is not clear exactly how many deaf schools there are in Gaza, although internet research reveals at least two: the ASDC and the Mustafa Sadiq Rafii school. Many of the people I know through my research in Jordan are Palestinian, have family in Palestine, and/or are of Palestinian descent.

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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.

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