Anthropology News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Over the past 20 years, Mark Mansperger (professor, Washington State University-Tri-Cities) has published more than 45 op-eds in the Tri-City Herald , on topics ranging from politics to economics to the environment. Did you learn anything about yourself, anthropology, or newspaper writing? Was it an enlightening experience?

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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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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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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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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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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 for Beginners

MAY 17, 2021

In anthropology the study of the process of Urbanisation started with a debate on weather rural and urban are two distinctively identifiable and isolated poles or not. Its population is relativelv homogeneous in culture of origin. In contrast the "Indians" of the village lived from foraging (see foragers) and swidden agriculture.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 17, 2025

"The study of pottery production and distribution provides a unique perspective on how political and economic boundaries were established in the European Bronze Age," says Adrià Moreno Gil, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and lead author of the study. DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00049869 1 Moreno Gil, A.,

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Even with increased interactions through evangelizing, there have been growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Zambia in recent years, often based in economic inequalities between the countries. In this dimension, the interactions are not as straightforward as mere economic or political engagements. This greatly impressed Mr. Cheng.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The possibility of me being a low-caste woman with a health condition that was culturally associated with impurity had invoked a reaction from people who were usually cautious about their conduct around me since I was a foreigner. The head and the intestines of the goat are offered to the deity along with flowers, incense, and sweets.

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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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Perspectives in Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Written by Keith Hart The classical liberal revolutions were sustained by three ideas: that freedomand economic progress require increased movement …

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Anthropology News

APRIL 7, 2025

Not only do these friends and family offer economic and moral support, but their desires for the familiar tastes of Oaxaca permitted the growth of Las Maneras into a market and eventually a sit-down restaurant. Ariana Gunderson is the section contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 7, 2025

Concern about the profitability of rubber in a changing environment coincides with concerns about family finance and security, kinship ever wedded to economics. Maja Jeranko and Anika Jugovic-Spajic are section contributing editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology. Credit: Chantal Croteau Fig.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Traditional technologies and cultural practices are often viewed as symbols of womens backwardness and oppression in the Global South. Maja Jeranko and Anika Jugovic-Spajic are section contributing editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology. appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. Scientists predict that by 2050, more than half of the global population will live in areas that suffer from water scarcity for at least a month each year.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Project Title:Buen Vivir and Sumak Kawsay: Challenges and Possibilities in Rebuilding Alternative Worlds Cristina Conesa Pla, London School of Economics and political science Cristina Conesa Pla (she, her) is a third-year PhD candidate in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In this essay, I reflect on the experience of curating Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings as an undocumented immigrant anthropologist and lessons regarding the potential for curatorial anthropology as a praxis of care. The post Curating Immigrant Life: A Praxis of Care appeared first on Anthropology News.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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 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

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 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

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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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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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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