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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Hospitality and Care towards the (Un)knowable Stranger in Greek Orthodox Charities

Anthropology News

The stranger as a general category of analysis stands out within the social sciences precisely for what Georg Simmel dubbed this “constellation” of “near[ness] and far[ness] at the same time.” James Verinis is the contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

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Leonard B. Glick

Anthropology News

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. In 1972 he left to join the faculty of the two-year-old Hampshire College as full professor and dean of social sciences.

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Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

She has published several books (authored and co-edited) and multiple articles on comparative law and courts, as well as on field research and research transparency. and Master’s from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Alan Harwood

Anthropology News

(1935-2024) On July 5, 2024 Dr. Alan Harwood, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, died at the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, Massachusetts surrounded by his children, Jessica and Seth Harwood, and his wife, Margot Welch.

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The Sexual Division of Labor (con’t)

Perspectives in Anthropology

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. I spent two years in Jamaica teaching in a new graduate school of social sciences

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Culture and Personality with special emphasis on Margaret Mead

Anthropology for Beginners

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. Thomas Barfield (1996) Dictionary of Anthropology. Philip Bock (1999).

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