Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi]

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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

With over 1,300 ethnic groups, 700 local languages, and various religious and cultural practices spread across more than 17,000 islands, Indonesia’s cultural diversity is an invaluable treasure. President Jokowi seeks to embody and represent this rich cultural diversity.

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Sapiens

MAY 6, 2025

Now interested in this highways history, she explores how this and other roads were used to expand territory and exploit people during South Africas colonial periods under Dutch and British rule, and how they kept people separate during the countrys apartheid government from 1948 to 1994. Nicole van Zyl is a South African lawyer and Ph.D.

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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. Petersburg in the 1760s, where he ed with G. Müller, J.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. Jonah had worked in the past as a part-time IT consultant for various Chinese businesses around Kombela.

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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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OCTOBER 7, 2024

It represents a key example of how Tibetan refugees have established institutionalized, international education that preserves, advances, and shares Buddhist culture and philosophy. However, among community members, the relevance of linguistic diversity to the continuity of Tibetan Buddhist culture is a topic of considerable debate.

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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. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Government agencies and NGOs promote cookstoves for women with the promise of reducing drudgery. Traditional technologies and cultural practices are often viewed as symbols of womens backwardness and oppression in the Global South. appeared first on Anthropology News. The buzzword drudgery serves many agendas.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations.

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Civics U

DECEMBER 22, 2021

From an anthropological as well a historical viewpoint, religion- that is, a people’s world view – is at the core of traditional cultures around the world. Christmas is obviously an important custom in American culture. Reflecting on the various Christmas activities provides some perspective on contemporary American culture.

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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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JULY 17, 2024

As states forgo redistributive policy and embrace marketized economies that commodify education as the morally legitimized means of social mobility, scholars in anthropology and education have turned critical attention to pedagogies of aspiration. Tricia Niesz is the section contributing editor for the Council on Anthropology and Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

He has an office, access to professional training and government-provided health insurance. He makes the equivalent of about $7,000 per course, per term. He has a multiyear contract and can typically pick the subjects that he teaches. All of these things, he said, help him focus on the reason that he’s there: his students.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

What does the stereotype tell us about educational culture and structure more broadly? The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Further, varied government and regulatory agencies have pressed for widespread AI literacy training. Is it right? For example, H.R.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 17, 2024

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958.

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MAY 28, 2024

How do beggars gain access to public space in Guangzhou through such performances, navigating local governance and social norms? In the following, I will show how panhandling adapts to a changing spatial culture and the local state’s attempts to “beautify” the commons.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While Tzu Chi promotes Buddhist veganism, Taiwan indigenous groups were hunting cultures that still love eating meat. What could Chinese Buddhism and indigenous cultures possibly share in terms of environmental outlooks? The government wants to protect wildlife populations in the mountains.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. The primary aim of the policy was to correct several mishaps of the earlier policies centering on the Tribal population of the country.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. Joseph Feldman is the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology section editor. What is solidarity?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Hamadoori culture is closely tied to fishing, and though the industry remains decimated, local fishermen like Kyosuke continue to fish the waters of hamadoori bays. Buffeted by coastal winds, summer in the hamadoori “ coastal region” towns of Namie and Futaba shimmers with heat under wide blue skies.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Meanwhile, others persisted in rejecting the “Ponzi scheme participant” label imposed by the state, asserting, “I am an investor lured by the government for their ‘financial inclusion.’ The post Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China appeared first on Anthropology News.

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APRIL 30, 2024

As the government has weaponized antiterror laws and foreign funding directives to arrest activists and shut down civil society organizations, scholars contend that no country is a better exemplar of our global democratic recession than India. The post A Conspiracy of Democratic Repair 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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Perspectives in Anthropology

MARCH 1, 2025

Written by Adeoluwa Chukwu During an age where the flame of Pan-Africanism has been severely dimmed by the wave of neocolonialism, it is crucial to revisit the value of Pan-Africanism and why this ideology ought to be the future of African governance. It is necessary to engage in this analysis because many men, in particular,…

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In addition to providing needed heat, wood-hauling practices are an essential part of cultural identity. federal agencies existed, the Bears Ears area holds enduring cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance to the tribes of the region. However, Indigenous practices do not always fit neatly with U.S.

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APRIL 24, 2025

According to Mukul Sharma, within such upper caste perspectives, an Untouchable or outcasteconsidered as possessing lesser human dignitydoes not fit neatly on either side of the nature-culture binary. We are thus presented with challenges in comprehending the experiences of those living at the margins of nature-(dominant) culture.

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MARCH 28, 2025

Since the 1970s, Japanese society has increasingly relied on migrants to fill a variety of jobs, although the government has been slow to acknowledge or support them. Although the Japanese government does not record the religion of migrants living in Japan, scholars estimate that 230,000 Muslims are living there as of 2020.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

At the time, the Ministry of Industries and the government of Bangladesh were seeking to reform the country’s shipbreaking industry so that Bangladesh would be in a position to ratify the 2009 “Hong Kong Convention for Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling” (HKC) by 2023. The changes took place as late as 2011.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

However, the government policies fail to outline practical measures, leaving a gap in the market for exploring professional standards. Additionally, their work often requires mediating between the clients wishes and a legal culture that favors familial ties and the rights of biological children.

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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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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

When temperatures rise above 50°C, the government grants public holidays. But, very quickly, complaining about the heat leads to criticism of the government and the political class. For them, global warming and how it affects them points to a political problem of governance and management.

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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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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations. Striving to preserve material cultural heritage, experts disapprove of treasure hunting, which they view as a financially motivated and rather vulgar search for material riches.

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