Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. Open-access sites like Annas Archive challenge these barriers, much like underground migration networks, offering access but risking legal suppression. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The category includes archaeological remains, buildings and structures, landscapes and places, towns and neighborhoods, objects, historical documents, folk traditions, and other things associated with and valued by people. These include objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science or technology of a specified culture.

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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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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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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

APRIL 30, 2024

Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on Aug. This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks.

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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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