Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

It is also known as physical anthropology, which originally referred to the study of human biology within the framework of evolution and with an emphasis on the interaction between biology and culture. Osteology, the study of the skeleton, is central to physical anthropology.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 of ancient human DNA from the Oakhurst rock shelter in South Africa is shedding new light on population history in one of the world’s earliest regions of modern human activity. These new results from southernmost Africa are quite different, and suggest a long history of relative genetic stability.”

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ For a digital anthropology seminar at the University of Denver, I asked my students: “Why do the pressures of our lived realities demand a response through poetry?”

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The interview assignment encouraged them to see anthropology in conversation with their own families.

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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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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.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Collaborative Research The groundbreaking study was led by IPHES-CERCA in collaboration with the University Rovira i Virgili, the Catalan Cultural Heritage Research Institute, the University of Girona Institute of History Research, the University of Bordeaux, and Catalonia’s International University. 1 Lozano, M., Soler, J.,

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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. If there are any places where a map doesn’t show the road very well, that’s where I’m going,” Van Stockum said.

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Anthropology for Beginners

JANUARY 3, 2021

In classical sense society refers to a group of people who share a common ‘culture’, occupy a particular territorial area and feel themselves to constitute a unified and distinct entity (Frisby and Sayer 1986). In this sense, society may denote the group’s population, its institutions and relations, or its culture and ideology.

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations?

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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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Evolutionary, cultural, and social processes that seem unimaginable if we try to apply them to sapiens populations, as we understand them through cultural anthropology, history, and archaeology. The latest discovery of Thorin’s remains, which I began to unveil in The Naked Neanderthal , poses countless questions.

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Anthropology News

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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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

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. Leonard Glick published two books based on his research on Jewish history and Judaism. There he served indigent patients, many of them people of color.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 22, 2022

The word "tribe" has a long and ignoble history and remains one of the most variably used terms within and outside of anthropology (Helm 1968). But most who use the term analytically narrow it to mean some form of political unit, as distinct from "ethnie" or "nation," which suggest a cultural identity.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Thankfully, we have records of past Afro-descendant entrepreneurs through both written and oral histories. It is “an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience ”. Turning one’s gaze south, the works of historian Michael L.

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Anthropology News

JULY 27, 2024

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. One of his classmates was Carrie Chu, who was from Hong Kong and was studying anthropology and Southeast Asian history. Smith and Hilda Kuper as his advisors.

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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. Merging anthropology and journalism was attempted through the ‘70s into the aughts. Grindall and Robin Rhodes. Grindall and Robin Rhodes.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

These findings offer new insights into the evolutionary pathways of dexterity and cultural development that began long before the genus Homo emerged. sediba displayed substantial manipulation abilities, which, while not necessarily linked directly to stone tools, could indicate broader cultural behaviors. A new study shows that A.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. It is more “groundwork” for a theory than a fully worked out one and is U.S.-centric,

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Uncharted doesn’t stand alone in the narrative it serves, but it is a notable entry in a long line of pulp fictions that treat tangible cultural heritage as objects that can be removed from their context with no change in significance. Yet it falls on the player to examine the emotions that are elicited when controlling Nathan’s adventures.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Origins of Risky Play: A Legacy from Early Humans Co-author Zane Thayer, associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth, explains that although children today are physically safer than ever before, societal anxiety about injuries has never been higher. ” The researchers connect this concept to our evolutionary history.

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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. 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.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Grove, Jubilee Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Courtesy Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, passed away on May 24, 2023, at the age of 87 after a long illness. There were also many articles on Chalcatzingo and the place of Olmecs in Mesoamerican history.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. Such interest also distracted from the breakthrough’s Nobel-worthy value: answering scientific questions about species’ history and evolution.

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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. This ancient city, with a history spanning over 2,000 years, is still inhabited and preserves traditional structures such as windcatchers.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

By way of this maneuver, (settler) environmentalists attempt to claim innocence vis-à-vis an ongoing history of land expropriation, enslavement, and profit-driven growth from which they continue to benefit. Taras Fedirko and Whitney Russell are section contributing editors for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 9, 2024

A Convergence of Science and Spirituality Published in PLoS ONE 1 , the study showcases the collaborative efforts of researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, the University of Calgary, the Autonomous University of Campeche, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. 1 Lentz, D. Hamilton, T.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The walls, adorned with posters showcasing different languages and cultures, reflect the richness of the tapestry of diverse worlds and ways of being that fill the room. Brightly colored couches, positioned in each corner, offer cozy sanctuaries amid the bustling energy of the space.

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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. Kagiso Mnisi: Is anything ever really new? Again, is anything ever really new?

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Dating back to the Late Preceramic Period, this plaza predates iconic structures like the Great Pyramids of Egypt and Stonehenge, marking it as a significant milestone in architectural history. Through outreach efforts, the team works closely with local residents to share findings and preserve cultural heritage. 1 Toohey, J.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

There papers in Nature Ecology and Evolution 1 2 3 summarize findings at the Ranis site and showcase a Stone Age culture that predates previous estimates, shedding light on the coexistence of modern humans and Neanderthals. In the recent excavations at Ranis, a fragment of human bone was discovered. 1 Mylopotamitaki, D., Fewlass, H.,

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

While overregulation occurs across linguistic contexts, the specificity of the #NoSaboKid is co-constitutive with histories of immigration from Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to Anglophone countries like the United States. In reflecting on this, L.A. In taking a lead from Salva and L.A.,

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Braithwaite stresses that, “We need awareness of our situatedness—in time, space, in culture and in how we experience the flow of history through us. By building relationships with colleagues who come from different cultures and contexts, we can create ways to help us see more clearly where change is needed in our teaching.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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. The post Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past appeared first on Anthropology News.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. History and Civics scores for eighth-grade students sounded an alarm: scores have dropped by an average of five points since 2018 and nine points since 2014.

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