Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

However, while such representations of heat alert us to the urgency of climate change, they don’t adequately capture how it is managed and lived with in the everyday, particularly in regions like South Asia, where the need to manage heat is not new but has been long been embedded in cultural practices, techniques, and technologies.

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Anthroholic

AUGUST 19, 2023

In the realm of anthropology, markets are not merely viewed as places for economic exchange but are considered as complex sociocultural systems that are deeply intertwined with local societies, cultures, and politics.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

Read alongside these critiques, Jesús’s Paradise Farm indicates how fire’s “alter-lives”—efforts to counter fire and climate crisis through departures from a capitalist status quo—can entrench rather than interrupt racialized political and economic orders.

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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. The post Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The ongoing process of postdisaster decontamination has resulted in hundreds of thousands of bags of contaminated topsoil and over a million metric tons of wastewater, and just as the disaster reduced once-thriving communities to ghostly memorials, it also led to a reimagination of the community’s economic and social infrastructure.

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Anthropology News

MAY 28, 2024

In the following, I will show how panhandling adapts to a changing spatial culture and the local state’s attempts to “beautify” the commons. One could argue that panhandling performances adapted to this spatial culture of an entertainment-hungry society as they became themselves a spectacle of sight, sound, and story.

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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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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Although, these categories of findings are often seen as ‘objective’ and scientific in nature and are not really linked to existing socio-cultural hierarchies, their use by the ruling dispensation like what Hoddar (2005) argues are nevertheless part of politics, politics of identity construction and formulation.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The scheme aims at planning their socio-economic development in a comprehensive manner while retaining the culture and heritage of the community by adopting habitat development approach and intervening in all spheres of their social and economic life, so that a visible impact is made in improvement of the quality of life of PVTGs.

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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? railway policy.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The comparatively poor working situation of American adjuncts “is a sad story,” said Jassim, who teaches corporate finance, real estate investment and managerial and engineering economics at McGill University. “It It breaks my heart.” The Redpath Museum on the campus of McGill University in Montreal.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 16, 2024

Most educational programs in the Dominican Republic are designed with the assumption that helping youth learn English will prepare them for local jobs in the tourism industry and ultimately improve their economic livelihoods. The post Putting Language to Work in the Dominican Republic appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

As the state endeavors to cultivate fintech companies as catalysts for economic stimulation, there lies a strategic imperative for major platforms. The post Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China appeared first on Anthropology News. However, most platform operators and the state did not aim to scam.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 26, 2020

Development Anthropology Vs Anthropology of Development Development has been seen as a mechanism of social change which is a) associated with postwar reconstruction of underdeveloped areas of the world, b) a mechanism of domination of south by north, i.e. neo colonialism, and c) something that has a close link with capitalism’s need for new markets.

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Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Definition: Urban Anthropology examines the social organization of the city, looking at the kinds of social relationship and pattern of social life unique to cities and comparing their different cultural and historical contexts. Roberts 1978).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

She worked 40 hours a week on top of school and ended up changing her major, which was originally business management economics. “I Disabatino, now a UCSC junior double-majoring in psychology and anthropology and also the first in her low-income family to go to college, said: “I kind of felt like a deer in the headlights.”.

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Anthroholic

MARCH 3, 2024

Originating from the Kyasanur Forest in Karnataka, India, KFD has serious implications on the socio-economic, cultural, and health dimensions of affected communities. Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), also known as Monkey Fever, is a tick-borne viral hemorrhagic fever endemic to South Asia.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. Ethnology and ethnography developed, of course, dialectically.

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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. Related: My family fled the Vietnam War, could I preserve their culture and my GPA ?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

I hadn’t had many interactions with white people,” said Carter, now a senior majoring in anthropology and cell biology. “I Like the country itself, struggling to transition away from a straight, white, male-centered culture, campuses are laboring to find the best way to evolve. I wanted to work on that: How do I code switch?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. And many different disciplines must combine to address this world’s needs and challenges.

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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. appeared first on Anthropology News. There, I find enough room to be with the dead, the ancestors who are gone too soon.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

When elite admissions offices stepped up recruitment of low-income and first-generation students several years ago, they focused on financial aid, not noticing the cultural issues. New research backs up the idea that low-income first gens experience familiar economic, social, and cultural barriers when they get to the workplace.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada My Introduction to Anthropology course concludes with a unit on sustainability, which covers topics like globalisation, food security, and diet. Can I take your order, please? It is familiar. Taylor & Francis.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. Joseph Feldman is the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology section editor. The post Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times appeared first on Anthropology News.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. So the projects brought in teams from African studies programs who understood the culture.

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Anthroholic

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Silent trade, also known as dumb barter or depot trade, is a method of exchange where two trading parties do not have any direct interaction during the trade process.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

That, in turn, can help us link local conceptions of deceit to the social and economic contexts in which they are applied, contexts where logics of circulation are always front and center. Early that year, after a decade of political and economic turmoil , the country descended into one of the worst episodes of hyperinflation ever recorded.

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Anthropology News

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

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. Such depictions are found not only in media, but in museums and introductory anthropology textbooks too.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2024

Anthropological poems from around the globe speak to people’s creative will, resistance, and resilience—and the significance of our shared humanity. ✽ We asked authors to share their insights into “what brought humanity to this point [in history] and anthropology’s role in those processes.” Indigenous anthropologist Jenny L.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. Tricia Niesz is the section contributing editor for the Council on Anthropology and Education.

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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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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The citizen action groups highlighted different issues, from conserving endangered species to preserving cultural landscapes. Taking into account that construction projects have been one of the motors of urban development and economic growth, what would be the effect of not building? Would it still be called “development” and “growth”?

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The project investigates how communities accommodate differences in culturally resonant ways and asks what everyday practices and justifications they draw on to maintain civil relations and avoid conflict and violence. Everyone was enthusiastic to do so. These relationships call on older traditions of religious tolerance in the region.

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