Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Regardless of its conceptual newness, the narrative of AI is often framed within existing tropes of power dynamics, economic motivations, and ownership. But first, the data thief gives a prompt on background generate a story on Africa’s AI narrative result: Semafor article titled AI Ads Are Sweeping Across Africa Prompt.

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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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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

On the one hand, this can be read as a source of economic empowerment. On the other hand, though, the introduction of language onto the economic market leaves it subject to new, managerial conceptions of how we do conversation. Economically, voice technologies are often sold as affordable, “efficient” alternative to human labor.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

On the surface, the purpose of higher education is to support all students in their growth academically, socially and economically. in anthropology. Our study documents some of the ways that the historical processes of colonization and displacement are reproduced in the United States, specifically through the education system.

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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. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. The maps shown here are all the work of William Z.

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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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Anthropology News

APRIL 24, 2025

Due to the devaluation of such work, Doms are also severely economically marginalized. No person belonging to a privileged caste ever lives in such places, no matter what their economic circumstances. The post Caste and Environmental Health: The Dom Community of North India appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE!

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Furthermore, Article 28 of the law states that violence against older adults is considered to be any single or repeated conduct, whether by action or omission, that causes harm of any nature or that violates the enjoyment or exercise of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, precisely as physical restraint does.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 23, 2024

This article is based on Brooke Bocast’s book, If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa, which won the 2023 Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) Outstanding Book Award. Makerere University exemplifies the contradictions that define Uganda’s economic rise over the past several decades.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I clicked on the article link theyd sent. 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. I (Holly) remember the cold of the brown leather sofa where I was sitting.

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Perspectives in Anthropology

MAY 1, 2024

Sex divisions in the Caribbean and West Africa I spent two years of fieldwork in Ghana for my PhD and published a book, The Political Economy of Agriculture, plus several articles on Ghana’s urban informal economy. Written by Keith Hart 4. I spent two years in Jamaica teaching in a new graduate school of social sciences…

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Three years earlier, she had traveled to Baltimore to start a new life, joining thousands of Black Americans who left the South in pursuit of better economic opportunities in the mid-twentieth century. In photos from a few of the articles, we witness Johnnie Mae’s beauty. appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This year, AAA journals published more than 600 articles, garnering almost 2 million views! Below is a list of the most-read article from each journal in 2024, but be sure to visit each journal’s homepage on AnthroSource to see all of the incredible pieces they’ve published over the past year! Snodgrass, Michael G.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 25, 2025

They exploited a unique economic niche created by the Jim Crow segregation laws that prevented grocers from serving both white and black customers. Racial segregation and immigration were intertwined political issues, and the discipline of anthropology was thick in the middle. But it did not define colored.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

After explaining the history of colonization as a process of intense economic extraction and political subjugation by imperial powers, she then explained that decolonization was something far more modest. In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 30, 2025

In 1995 he received the Conrad Arensberg Award from the American Anthropological Association. He became full professor and departmental chair in anthropology at University of Massachusetts, Boston, in September 1975, later serving as graduate dean. Nicole Gamst) The post Frederick Charles Gamst appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished with Creative Commons. ✽ The idea of “Man the Hunter” runs deep within anthropology, convincing people that hunting made us human, only men did the hunting, and therefore evolutionary forces must only have acted upon men.

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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. In this article, we address multiple scales of care that comprise existing collections and knowledge production in the present and future.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

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. I use pseudonyms in this article for all participants. Jean Hunleth and Samar Al-Bulushi are the section contributing editors for the Association for Africanist Anthropology.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

I was interviewing Yuna (all names in this article are pseudonyms), one of my interlocutors for my research on suicidalityincluding suicidal thoughts, plans, and attemptsamong young South Korean women in their twenties and thirties. Aaron Su and Jieun Cho are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. The articles are undergoing peer review, so Ortiz cant share more than general details, but he describes them as case studies that feature partnerships with historically marginalized and under-represented groups in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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