Anthropology News

AUGUST 18, 2024

Anthropology has long been celebrated as a discipline that offers profound insights into human cultures, societies, and behaviors. As we navigate the complexities of the twenty-first century, anthropology faces an ever-evolving landscape that presents challenges and opportunities for renewal and growth.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To his point, I find the current slew of handwashing videos on YouTube and other sites to be excellent resources for anthropology class projects, and utilize several in an activity that nurtures introductory students’ skills in critical thinking and observation. Why and how it is done varies across cultures.

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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. In management science there are studies of the ideal size of corporations, and some in anthropology and sociology study the ideal size of villages.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology (JONA) has just released Mark’s memoir, My Ideological Battle: Confronting Social Dogma with Anthropological Op-Eds. Did you learn anything about yourself, anthropology, or newspaper writing? Coming together in my pieces are my formal training in both economics and anthropology.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

Over time, Salesian intrusion, brutal at first, moved away from repressive evangelization to support land demarcation, Indigenous self-rule, and cultural revival. Earlier this year, I taught a graduate course on Amazonian anthropology and invited a group of young students from Bomboiza.

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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. Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.” “The

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As requested by the local Tibetan community, a linguistic anthropologist (Ward) and graduate student (Moli) adapted the Buddhist-inspired framework of SEE Learning to facilitate reflections on best practices in Tibetan heritage language education.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024.

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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. These centers became the centers of a) Primary urbanization.

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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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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

From the academic perspective, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the United States defines the study of public administration as "A program that prepares individuals to serve as managers in the executive arm of local, state, and federal government and that focuses on the systematic study of executive organization and management.

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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. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Someone who wants to live out my values in practice There is a key difference between an educator saying they want to meet the needs of diverse learners and that instructor actually taking the actions that would meet that goal. Brathwaite encourages educators to consider that when teaching feels easy, we’re probably not doing it right.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

In Patna, where traditional family structures often intersect with young women’s growing aspirations for education and social mobility, her understanding of care work offered a unique perspective on negotiating these seemingly competing demands. She viewed it as ethical labor that transforms the precarious mundane into the sacred.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2015, while conducting anthropological fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, a member of our team (Cole) heard local women discussing how water shortages were triggering arguments between partners. And critically, we partnered with local women activists who promote education and social change to address water insecurity.

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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. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Some 44 percent of American university and college faculty are part-time , according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Credit: Allen McEachern for The Hechinger Report Now there’s new scrutiny of how adjuncts’ pay and benefits affect not only them but also their students, who often go into debt to cover rising tuition.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping student-teacher relations in higher education in both exciting and worrying ways. What does the stereotype tell us about educational culture and structure more broadly? And how can a better understanding of the student position inform higher education’s response to GenAI?

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Anthropology News

JULY 27, 2024

Following elementary and high school education in Sioux Falls, he moved to Los Angeles near relatives, and took a summer job at North American Aviation (NAA). 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.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2024

1929-2024 Leonard Glick Leonard Glick—educator, scholar, anthropologist, former psychiatrist, and wit—passed away peacefully at home with his family shortly after turning 94. 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.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 12, 2024

The research program started in the spring of 2022 with an anthropological study in one large Kent Sikh community, examining health beliefs and experiences of migration and racism across different generations of Sikhs. The post Sikh Silences across Generations appeared first on Anthropology News.

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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

But they seem to miss the most important education of all: how to relate their specialization to others in an increasingly interconnected world. And how can educators and institutions change things? But, since the 1980s, political rhetoric has emphasized the need for less humanities and more STEM education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, for instance, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at Austin sent an email to 70 students saying he would give them an F on an assignment and refer them to the dean’s office after he discovered they were on a GroupMe chat group where answers to an exam were shared.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

Our study documents some of the ways that the historical processes of colonization and displacement are reproduced in the United States, specifically through the education system. On the surface, the purpose of higher education is to support all students in their growth academically, socially and economically.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Upon finishing her higher education, she began to work as a medical interpreter, and then later married her Chinese husband, a pharmacist who had acquired Japanese citizenship. For her, it seems like being a “real Chinese” is not simply about having Chinese “heritage,” sharing a Chinese blood tie and celebrating Chinese culture.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

Underneath that veneer of status, though, her extended family battled every cliché you’ve heard about rural life: low education levels, poverty and “an addiction to something.” Brown was accepted at 19 of the 23 schools to which she applied – including most of the marquee names in higher education. Her parents struggled with debt.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hualien is the headquarters of the Taiwanese Buddhist Tzu Chi Merit Foundation (慈濟功德會), with lay Buddhist volunteers all over the globe engaged in charity work, natural disaster relief, recycling, and environmental education. While Tzu Chi promotes Buddhist veganism, Taiwan indigenous groups were hunting cultures that still love eating meat.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Kirsten Lindbloom, University of Wisconsin – River Falls Professor Kirsten Lindbloom (she/her/hers) is a faculty member in the sociology, criminology and anthropology department at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. Research interests include social movements, social justice and cultural genocide.

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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. The book is both educational and endearing and mixes a little girl’s sentiments with the factual science she explores. “It

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Such changes are primarily occurring not at selective private or public flagship universities, but on campuses that largely serve low-income students who often come from poorly resourced public high schools or whose parents never finished college, threatening to further widen the quality divide between the educations rich and poor Americans receive.

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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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Today, such actions are most frequently framed through human rights petitions, letters to government officials, small protests, educational meetings, and accompaniment. Joseph Feldman is the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology section editor. What is solidarity? Perhaps above all, it is to be lived.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you write about Blackness while trying to resist the insidious pull of cultural and racial assimilation? As Black Nordics, we live in countries that top “Happiest Nation in the World” lists yearly, lists that often make cursory mention of racial-cultural homogeneity as a key contributor to national happiness. Hall, Stuart.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. He is currently working on a study of Civil War visual culture for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bogart is professor emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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