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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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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JANUARY 23, 2025

For them, the barriers to converting Chinese expatriates are cultural instead of ontological: not a matter of different kinds of souls, as described by some other Zambian Christians, but rather of linguistic misunderstanding. The post Jehovahs Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The collective aims to explore the intersection of craft, anthropological collaboration, and speculative futures in the Persian Gulf region. These artisans, with their intricate knowledge of traditional designs and a keen sense of aesthetics, ensured that every illustration was a reflection of the region’s rich culture.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

By analyzing distinctive genetic markers, researchers quantified this percentage, shedding light on the enduring impact of interbreeding events in human evolutionary history. Dr. Benjamin Peter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology explained, “We show that the period of mixing was quite complex.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For six weeks, we spent 40 percent of our time at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) office and 60 percent of our time at partner institutions: the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC).

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Anthropology.net

MAY 9, 2024

For the ancient Maya, ballcourts were not just arenas for sporting events but sacred spaces infused with ritual and reverence. Maya Ballgames: More Than Just Sport Professor Emeritus Nicholas Dunning highlights the multifaceted nature of Maya ballgames, steeped in religious symbolism and cultural significance.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 2, 2024

As the 2024 Summer Olympics captivate audiences with extraordinary athletic displays, it presents a timely opportunity to delve into the fascinating anthropology of endurance running. Amidst the excitement of new sports like break dancing and kayak cross, traditional events such as gymnastics and the marathon continue to captivate.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” This study was typical of what many people think of anthropology; I participated in the community, attended events, and interviewed Drag performers. Why might anthropologists study primates?

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

They were also rehearsing for a performance of The Semi-Conductor Radio Made in Shanghai, a show designed to showcase Mongolian culture to tourists from across the country. How do the images and ideas surrounding such an impersonal, distant event manage to remain relevant for these performers?

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

A key element of this narrative control is the concerted effort to ensure consistency among media outlets in how events are portrayed. The events, designed to amplify sectarian tensions, were orchestrated through a compliant media apparatus, creating a cycle of narratives that reinforces the government’s grip on power.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Together with Guldin and philosophers such as Michel Serres and Arden Reed, I also aim to bring the wider sense of the term meteor—as various atmospheric forces and events—back into the discourse of philosophy, humanities, and beyond. The post The Aeroroutes of Stuttgart appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

This entry marks our departure as Contributing Editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s (AFA) column in Anthropology News ( AN ). We also write to reflect on the works we patiently, lovingly, and laboriously shepherded into publication over the past four years and what they reveal about feminist anthropology.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

All subdisciplines of anthropology recognize the importance of contextualizing events, creating a discipline that respects paying attention while withholding judgment and remaining flexible during research. As a Tumblr user wrote about this phenomenon and our study, “Let the vagina have a monologue.” We will continue listening.

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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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation. I’m an archaeologist anthropologist who started writing in the anthropology publication about 15 years ago and had the seed idea of what would become SAPIENS and brought it to fruition. That topically we are focusing on anthropology.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

From the audience, as an anthropologist-in-training afraid her fieldwork would amount to nothing, I was thrilled to hear a cultural-historical reference on the nose enough for me to easily interpret (ventriloquize?). This statement might seem at first glance to be in line with an account that considers history and cultural conditions.

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TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

In either event, it is threatened by the specter of reaction. Hence in the name of the “preservation of and knowledge” we have a system which achieves neither true knowledge nor true culture. In one of our culture circles in Chile, the group was discussing (based on a codification) the anthropological concept of culture.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

My mentions of rural life, poverty, or culturally different standards of pet-keeping conjured ridicule and detailed descriptions of Barbuncho’s back wound (from a tussle with another animal), poor teeth, and parasites.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In our conversations, Chilean animal rights activists often emphasized that during vegan outreach events, people would routinely dismiss their message, claiming that any picture or video of factory farms or industrial slaughter was taken in the United States. The post Slaughterhouse Vigils appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2024

1947–2023 Dr. 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.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Using phylogenetic analysis — phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relationships over time, be they organisms or languages — they have reconstructed a vocabulary for PIE that gives us an idea of the culture of the people who spoke it. Were the Yamnaya the original Indo-Europeans? Strange Maps #1220 Got a strange map?

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Screening tests” probe a subject’s past, while “diagnostic tests” investigate a particular event. appeared first on Anthropology News. Credit: Hugh Gusterson The author’s polygraph equipment ready for use. We then learned about question formats. Some questions are designed to elicit what the polygrapher knows is a lie.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

If a single, life-altering event happens to you, beginning and concluding that tale might be easier. Do you think about your life as a linear, progressive sequence of events, and if pressed, could you talk about it in a way that convinces a complete stranger that you’re telling the truth?

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. The project invited students to consider how scientific knowledge develops and is situated in the historical and cultural dimensions of the times.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Anthropological research into human-animal conflict has centered on conservation efforts, tracing their roots to colonial times, examining their repercussions on marginalized communities, and analyzing the development of antagonistic sentiments toward wildlife. By attributing deception to the government, the surreal suddenly takes shape.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this article, I consider seemingly disparate and unlike things together in order to demonstrate Sinema’s recent political exploits as events that, taken together, are meant to signal “maverickness,” a political persona that was previously performed by two other senators from Arizona: Barry Goldwater and John McCain.

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Anthropology 365

AUGUST 9, 2024

Even without sight or sound of wolf, it is implicit in a hundred small events: the midnight whinny of a pack horse, the rattle of rolling rocks, the bound of a fleeing deer, the way shadows lie under the spruces. It tingles in the spine of all who hear wolves by night, or who scan their tracks by day.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Extreme weather events cause power outages that threaten or derail clinic and laboratory operations, medical equipment use and production, and communication systems —not to mention patient transportation—which negatively impact the availability and effectiveness of the infrastructure patients depend on for diagnosis and treatment.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The two hosts of the event immediately grew uncomfortable and strategically ended the recording just as a long-serving bureaucrat answered the question affirmatively, confessing his personal belief that the U.S. was still a colonial power in the world. In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Among the many anthropological outreach efforts around the worldwhich are typically led from the top down or by cultural outsidersthis homegrown organization is unique. Yet those events are too infrequent and limited in scope for knowledge of Rusingas ancient past to penetrate into cultural awareness, especially in rural areas.

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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 News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In my first Presidents Column for Anthropology News , I described World on the Move , still in its incubation stage: Building on AAAs past achievements andlooking to the future, I expect to helpbringanthropology more fully into the public conversation about critical local and global social issues and policy debates. Born with our own culture.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

How did their nomadic culture evolve? It provides a rare glimpse into the genetic legacies shaped by climate shifts, trade networks, and cultural interactions stretching back thousands of years. ” This genetic variation aligns with linguistic and cultural differences among Fulani groups. Where did they come from?

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Human brain evolution has long fascinated scientists, as it underpins the development of intelligence, culture, and complex behavior. Dr. Thomas Puschel, lead author of the study, emphasized: “Big evolutionary changes don’t always need dramatic events. Source: Current Anthropology.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

There have been a few attempts to repeat the event, although all have failed. But the ghost of the far right and white supremacism hung over the event. A careful selection of images can work to bring one to notice certain aspects of a situation more than others, can serve as a pivot between one interpretation of events and another.

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