Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

Humanities 105

Humanities History Archaeology K-12 105

Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The interview assignment encouraged them to see anthropology in conversation with their own families.

Research 130

Research Anthropology Psychology Cultures 130

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Cultures Tradition Psychology 130

Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view. Further, every world view includes (e) an orientation of the self in time and space by means of major natural phenomena; and (f) a similar orientation to life crises in human existence. Mendelson 1956): 1.

Anthropology 100

Anthropology Cultures Psychology Sociology 100

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. Students at Florida International University, including some pursuing master’s degrees in African and African diaspora studies, discuss a book about a massacre of tens of thousands of Haitians by the Dominican army in 1937.

Anthropology 144

Anthropology Social Science Sociology Humanities 144

Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

In his groundbreaking book, The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature (2024), Slimak delves into the depths of Neanderthal life, challenging preconceived notions and offering a fresh perspective on what it means to be human. Slimak asserts. "We

Humanities 52

Humanities Artifacts Sociology Anthropology 52

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.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Archiving Humanities Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Over the past decade, a growing number of professors in fields as diverse as business, English and the performing arts have integrated their teaching with efforts to minimize their campuses’ waste and emissions, at a time when human-created climate change is fueling dangerous weather and making life on Earth increasingly unstable.

Anthropology 143

Anthropology Economics Psychology Library 143

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. Glick appeared first on Anthropology News.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Psychology History Social Science 52

Anthropology News

APRIL 17, 2024

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958. He authored two books with Virginia H.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Sociology Pedagogy Cultures 52

Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

A landscape of human skull shapes These black-and-white maps are aesthetically attractive as well as invitingly strange. ” To be more precise: these maps plot a landscape of human skull shapes. Here’s a typical sentence from the book: “Normandy is today one of the blondest parts of France. 81, and 85, respectively.

Archiving 52

Archiving Sociology Humanities Anthropology 52

Anthropology 365

MAY 11, 2023

I was a guest on the NPR and Marfa Public Radio show, Nature Notes, discussing my research on human-javelina relations in Texas. Listen for a sneak peek at some of the content in my forthcoming book on the subject. Link to the radio show.

Humanities 40

Humanities Research Anthropology Cultures 40

ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is author of Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America (1919). The book was a Finalist, 2021 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize, and 2020 First Book Award, The Library Company of Philadelphia. And the co-series editor with J.

Museum 40

Museum American History History Library 40

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. Books and edited collections include Singer, M.

Teaching 246

Teaching Anthropology Archival Research Psychology 246

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways. This research challenges prevailing assumptions about speciation, offering a more nuanced framework for interpreting the evolutionary history of modern humans and their closest relatives. Journal : Evolutionary Anthropology , 2022. ” Dr. .

Ancestry 111

Ancestry Anthropology Humanities Museum 111

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Book : De Gruyter , 2008. Journal : Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 2017.

Archaeology 98

Archaeology Artifacts Ancestry Anthropology 98

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective.

Psychology 100

Psychology Anthropology Cultures Humanities 100

TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Pedagogy 275

Pedagogy Humanities Social Justice Cultures 275

Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

As we have engaged students in classroom activities related to HT94 over the past academic terms, we observed how the centering of undocumented migrant and border crossing experiences humanizes discussions and understandings of immigration in profound ways. immigration policies could directly lead to so much human devastation.

Museum 88

Museum Anthropology Humanities Social Justice 88

Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. The response from readers was unlike any he had experienced, prompting him to expand his ideas into a book, B t Jobs: A Theory , first published in 2018. He had no inkling it was about to cause something of a minor sensation.

Anthropology 132

Anthropology Economics Sociology Archiving 132

Anthropology News

MARCH 25, 2025

In the mid-1960s he published the magazine Powwow Trails and began authoring books for general audiences, including: Indian Dancing and Costumes , Indians of the Northern Plains , Indians of the Southern Plains ,and two childrens books, Crazy Horse and Custer and Young Brave. McAllester.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Tradition Cultures Humanities 52

Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Steward’s theory: Steward created a theoretical perspective that was distinctive in mid-20th-century anthropology. His theoretical ideas were the antithesis of humanistic and relativistic trends in cultural anthropology at the time. Over time, it became a unifying concept in American anthropology, spanning several subfields.

Cultures 130

Cultures Anthropology Archaeology Humanities 130

Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

Celebrity author Hancock has made a fortune writing sensationalized books that claim a “lost” ice age civilization once existed—without any direct evidence for this society. I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived.

Archaeology 145

Archaeology Heritage K-12 History 145

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I leave for class early, saving enough time to sit outside by the anthropology building and watch people go by. Archaeology is the study of our human ancestors. I already knew they were missionaries by the way they walked together, books in hand, no backpacks. Not aloud, of course. That would defeat the whole point. he asks me.

Archaeology 112

Archaeology Anthropology Controversial Topics Museum 112

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. Yes, as in the book and film Jurassic Park. In 1989, a University of Oxford team claimed to have extracted, for the first time, DNA from ancient human bones.

Research 143

Research Museum Anthropology Humanities 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. For many college students, the library is a place to hole up and finish a paper or to gather an armful of books from the stacks. Photo: Bess Adler for The New York Times. NICHOLE DOBO.

Library 66

Library Anthropology Sociology Elementary School 66

Sapiens

JANUARY 10, 2024

A biological and anthropological researcher explains how humans’ diverse ways of mating might have evolved. Concerning sex, what is natural for us humans? Fast forward to today, and humans exhibit diverse mating arrangements due to a greater influence of culture and tradeoffs between sexual desire, comfort, and jealousy.

Humanities 52

Humanities Anthropology Cultures Research 52

Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Karen Ito was a dedicated anthropologist, committed to promoting the understanding of the diversity of human cultural experience, with significant and wide-ranging contributions to the field of anthropology. She studied anthropology at UCLA, earning her BA in 1969, MA in 1973, and PhD in 1978.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Artifacts Psychology Cultures 52

Anthropology 365

AUGUST 9, 2024

While I am concerned about the wellbeing of Cujo, as an environmental anthropologist who studies human-wildlife relations, I am interested in the factors that facilitated the coyote attack. My research focuses on ways humans and wildlife find ways to co-exist. Both are the consequences of bad human decision-making.

Humanities 98

Humanities Research Anthropology Cultures 98

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. More trade books of Graebers writing were released posthumously in 2023 and 2024.

Anthropology 145

Anthropology Archiving History Cultures 145

Anthropology News

JANUARY 11, 2024

His life, his mistake, his achievement and his downfall can be read in the book of life, the Bible. The writer must pen each word with a refusal to resort to appeals about Black women’s innate “humanity”—one that is always already denied through her daily experiences of violence. appeared first on Anthropology News.

Archiving 52

Archiving Anthropology Economics Humanities 52

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Many museums are reckoning with the colonial legacies of the human remains and cultural objects in their collections. In his book The Malay Archipelago , Wallace recounts hunting orangutans for the museum and describes shooting this adult male eight times and leaving him hanging from a tree until he could return the next day.

Museum 109

Museum Archiving Anthropology History 109

Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 22, 2023

Culture and Personality Culture and personality is the name of a broad unrecognized movement which brings cultural anthropology, psychology and psychiatry together from about 1928 to 1955. After 1960s the field becomes known as psychological anthropology. Approaches: The approaches range from positivism to various hermeneutic humanism.

Cultures 130

Cultures Anthropology Psychology Artifacts 130

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I found his work enlightening and suggested reading Hage’s recent book , which focuses on coexistence and religious pluralism, with the Praxis group. But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.

Anthropology 140

Anthropology Human Rights Humanities Cultures 140

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.

Anthropology 98

Anthropology Economics History Humanities 98

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. As Bill Brown states, The story of objects asserting themselves as things, then, is the story of changed relation to the human subject.

Museum 98

Museum Anthropology Archiving Cultures 98

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music.

Humanities 145

Humanities Oral History Archiving Pedagogy 145