Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi]

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Cultural Dimensions of health Contents style='mso-element:field-begin'> TOC o "1-3" h z u Cultural Dimensions of health. Cultural Dimensions of health Contents style='mso-element:field-begin'> TOC o "1-3" h z u Cultural Dimensions of health. A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e,

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

This article was originally published at YES! Over time, Salesian intrusion, brutal at first, moved away from repressive evangelization to support land demarcation, Indigenous self-rule, and cultural revival. Earlier this year, I taught a graduate course on Amazonian anthropology and invited a group of young students from Bomboiza.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology (JONA) has just released Mark’s memoir, My Ideological Battle: Confronting Social Dogma with Anthropological Op-Eds. Did you learn anything about yourself, anthropology, or newspaper writing? Coming together in my pieces are my formal training in both economics and anthropology.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.” “The Merging anthropology and journalism was attempted through the ‘70s into the aughts. Allen, ” Anthropological Methods Relevant for Journalists” by S. Grindall and Robin Rhodes.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Ariana Gunderson is a PhD student in Anthropology at Indiana University and the Anthropology News Section Editor for SAFN. But, these tropical foods like banana and pineapple are not part of my heritage or my culture, so I don’t feel like I’m losing that identity by not consuming those foods.

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Anthropology News

JULY 16, 2024

This summer, tthe AAA hosted three interns through the Virtual High School Internship , and throughout the summer, the interns engaged in a variety of enriching activities: Research Projects: They read scholarly research articles, took them apart to see how they were constructed, and communicated their methods and findings to diverse audiences.

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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. The post Call for Pitches: Care appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

Submit Posted: 3/31/25 Deadline: 5/1/25 Anthropology News invites submissions on the theme of invisibility. Anthropology News encourages submissions in a variety of formats to present compelling stories that make anthropological insights accessible to a wide audience.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It is “an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience ”. In autoethnographic work, the researcher conducts anthropological fieldwork on himself/herself/themselves and their experiences. We must thrive.”

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Issued: February 5, 2024 Pitches due: March 4, 2024 Decisions: March 22, 2024 First drafts due: April 17, 2024 Anthropology News invites submissions for the fourth issue of 2024, which will explore the multifaceted concept of “treasure” through an anthropological lens. For photo essays, include one or two sample images.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Issued: September 30, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until December 1, 2025 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the theme of migration. Read more about us here and consider how you might tell anthropological stories for a general audience as you consider the direction of your pitch.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

For them, the barriers to converting Chinese expatriates are cultural instead of ontological: not a matter of different kinds of souls, as described by some other Zambian Christians, but rather of linguistic misunderstanding. The post Jehovahs Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

He first formally recognized public administration in an 1887 article entitled The Study of Administration. As scholars like Fenno (1990) argues for the needs of gathering anthropological knowledge on politicians’ lifeworlds and their modes of decision making newer avenues for anthropologists are opening. Policy research. Advocator 7.

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JULY 20, 2024

In Greece, specifically, the nearness and farness of the stranger is rooted in claims of filoxenia (literally “love of the stranger,” but usually translated as “hospitality”) as a cultural and historical value. Filoxenia is splashed across newspaper articles , tourism websites , and travel blogs.

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APRIL 7, 2025

Gizomodo titles their article on the topic “In a Historic First, Scientists Have Resurrected the Dire WolfSort Of.” ” New Scientist is even more bull, titling their article simply, “No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction.”

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Anthropology News

JUNE 6, 2024

Issued: June 6, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until September 1 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Pitch Here As the 2024 American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting approaches, Anthropology News invites submissions that delve into the dynamic realm of anthropological praxis.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

Please note that this article includes images of human remains. From the photo, we learned new details about this pivotal population—a discovery that highlights the importance of archival research and the seemingly mundane paper trail that should accompany any anthropological fieldwork. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This article is a part of The Conversation’s series on unique courses. For other articles in this series, read here and here. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. Generate a summary of the article. Something that Koffi Kouakou foregrounds. Koffi Kouakou: It.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

What does the stereotype tell us about educational culture and structure more broadly? The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Is it right? And how can a better understanding of the student position inform higher education’s response to GenAI? I can use this! Woohoo indeed.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Scientists working in the field of NLP are also recalibrating the basic assumptions of their field through a process that involves arguments laid out in journal articles and heated debates at conferences. Sarah Muir and Michael Wroblewski are the section editors for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, for instance, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at Austin sent an email to 70 students saying he would give them an F on an assignment and refer them to the dean’s office after he discovered they were on a GroupMe chat group where answers to an exam were shared.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

In 1957 Len left medicine for a field that interested him far more, beginning the study of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and getting his PhD in 1963. Len is best known to historians of anthropology for an article published in 1982 that began a small academic industry.

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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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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This article accompanies a short film COOL TECH , which was produced as part of the Cool Infrastructures research project. Such “technical challenges” also constitute anthropological encounters with weather and technology. The post COOL TECH appeared first on Anthropology News.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

The capitalization of the “m” is deliberate, to be inclusive of the linguistic and cultural diversity in HMoob communities, and we use “-oob” rather than “-ong” to follow the Hmong Romanized Popular Alphabet, which we feel best represents what HMoob people call themselves in their native tongue.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For her, it seems like being a “real Chinese” is not simply about having Chinese “heritage,” sharing a Chinese blood tie and celebrating Chinese culture. This article aims to nuance the understanding of digital media’s impact on how Chinese migrants see and represent themselves. and so my friends know that I’m abroad.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

His new book, “Surrounding Fort Knox, Including Southern Indiana,” showcases Van Stockum’s journey through the counties around Southern Indiana and Fort Knox and details the area’s rich natural and cultural history. Van Stockum also has a children’s series called the Little Girl Series, inspired by Van Stockum’s own grandchildren.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Author’s note: “Aeroroute” is a composite term I introduce in this article to capture the unique material character of what Stuttgart locals call Frischluftzufuhr, Frischluftschneise, Kaltluftschneise, or Luftleitbahnen, all of which refer to a passage through which fresh and cool airs flow.

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JUNE 18, 2024

Credit: Generated by ChatGPT’s DALL-E image generation model This image was generated by DALL-E based on the prompt to “create a photorealistic header image for an article about call centers staffed entirely by robots.” The post Vocal Robots appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Places like The Palace that emerge from this type of story are anything but generic; they are culturally authored, “graffitied” art. The post Transitory Facades: Architectures of the Middle-Somewhere appeared first on Anthropology News. Should we think of them as ignorant of the norms, or irreverent?

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

The divisions they display for the most part don’t correspond to any familiar type of boundaries — political, natural, or cultural. 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. So what do they denote?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 11, 2024

This question has motivated much of the anthropology of infrastructures—how, following Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel , “the very idea of ‘disruption’ operates with the assumption that quietly working infrastructures are ‘normal.’” Compromise always involves concession, whether mutual or at someone’s or something’s expense.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Amidst these continuing conversations, the survey launched in early April 2021, alongside multiple news media articles about the topic. All subdisciplines of anthropology recognize the importance of contextualizing events, creating a discipline that respects paying attention while withholding judgment and remaining flexible during research.

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