Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

i] History of the usage: The word “peasant” appears in English in late medieval and early modern times, when it was used to refer to the rural poor, rural residents, serfs, agricultural laborers, and the “common” or “simple” people. in fact he was talking about 'peasants' [1967:4].

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Merging anthropology and journalism was attempted through the ‘70s into the aughts. Grindall and Robin Rhodes. Grindall and Robin Rhodes.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. New analyses from Iron Age burials reveal that women remained in their natal communities and provided the key to kinship. The findings offer essential clues about gender roles and social structures in ancient Europe.

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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. Rationally, I know my choice not to buy bananas (or pineapple) is so minimal within the issue when you think about the overall systemic structure, complexity, and history of our unjust food system.

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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! titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.”

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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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ 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.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Thankfully, we have records of past Afro-descendant entrepreneurs through both written and oral histories. In autoethnographic work, the researcher conducts anthropological fieldwork on himself/herself/themselves and their experiences. Turning one’s gaze south, the works of historian Michael L. We must thrive.”

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. Such interest also distracted from the breakthrough’s Nobel-worthy value: answering scientific questions about species’ history and evolution.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The first explicit elaboration of the concept occurred in Redfleld’s article “The Primitive World View” (1952). The first explicit elaboration of the concept occurred in Redfleld’s article “The Primitive World View” (1952). Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Mendelson 1956): 1.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Witnesses adherence to the Bible transcends the kinds of histories in secular society that emphasize a world order dominated by competition between nation states. The names of people and places in this article have been anonymized in order to protect the identity of Haruyamas research participants.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation. I’m an archaeologist anthropologist who started writing in the anthropology publication about 15 years ago and had the seed idea of what would become SAPIENS and brought it to fruition. That topically we are focusing on anthropology.

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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. It is not a “history course for engineers.” Read the original article.

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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. Leonard Glick published two books based on his research on Jewish history and Judaism. There he served indigent patients, many of them people of color.

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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. In 1995, filmmaker John Akomfrah crafts and experimental film essay titled Last Angel of History.

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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

APRIL 30, 2024

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Barbuncho, the Dog behind the Story Back in 2014, my heart skipped a beat when I began to read a widely circulating article about a “stray” dog who “adopted a team of Swedish trekkers in the Amazon.” It was a fantastic story, but it felt eerily familiar.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

But our research team, comprised of HMoob-American college students and education researchers, uses the spelling “HMoob” to challenge the colonial history of this ethnic group that originated in southern China. history of violent and destructive military interventions in Southeast Asia and its subsequent refugee outcomes.

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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. If there are any places where a map doesn’t show the road very well, that’s where I’m going,” Van Stockum said.

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Perspectives in Anthropology

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Written by Colin Greer & Eric Laursen Editor’s note: This is the second of three articles on the role of social movements in bringing about transformative change.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Call centers have a long history of regulating, surveilling, and assessing operators’ conversations in order to achieve the same levels of performance as Grace. The post Vocal Robots appeared first on Anthropology News. Each call can last no more than five minutes, meaning Grace receives hundreds of calls per day.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

This is a huge step forward from the mutually exclusive, previous scenarios, towards a more plausible model that integrates archaeological, anthropological, and genetic findings.” This article Study: The Indo-European language family was born south of the Caucasus is featured on Big Think. Strange Maps #1220 Got a strange map?

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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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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. This article The skull maps that quantified racism is featured on Big Think. The maps shown here are all the work of William Z. Ripley (the middle initial stands for Zebina).

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

The work in that preparatory meeting was to take all the little pieces—the subtle and not-so-subtle nuances, the histories, even the apparent gaps—of an applicant’s self-narration of their life and help shape it into terms intelligible for the limited allowances of asylum law.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

PLATFORM OR PLOY After the release of Hancock’s 2022 Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse , archaeologists contested and condemned his claims through the forums of an open letter , news articles , op-eds , social media , and blog posts. Pseudoarchaeology, or “alternative history,” draws major attention and casts itself as legitimate.

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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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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

However, the thefts continued after the woman identified as the culprit left the sorority, and she would later recant her confession, attributing her suspicious physiological reactions during the test to a repressed history of sexual abuse. appeared first on Anthropology News. The post Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

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JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. Below, we present case studies from three anthropology courses using three different sets of AI tools.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2016, as a master’s student, I published an article in Boston University’s Pardee Periodical (now The Pardee Atlas: Journal of Global Affairs ) about a new initiative at the ASDC to support their students. 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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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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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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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 25, 2025

Created in 1986 in the Centre Louis Gernet, as the result of a collaboration between French and Greek Hellenists (University of Ioannina) and later on with Romanists, Mtis proposes every year to the scientific community a selection of articles analyzing Greek and Roman society from an anthropological and historical perspective.

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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. The history of hospital care has also created a situation where bedsiders and patients may not trust hospital staff.

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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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