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 News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Issued: February 5, 2024 Pitches due: March 4, 2024 Decisions: March 22, 2024 First drafts due: April 17, 2024 Anthropology News invites submissions for the fourth issue of 2024, which will explore the multifaceted concept of “treasure” through an anthropological lens. For photo essays, include one or two sample images.

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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.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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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. 1 Kunze, J., Harvati, K.,

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.” “The Merging anthropology and journalism was attempted through the ‘70s into the aughts. Allen, ” Anthropological Methods Relevant for Journalists” by S. Grindall and Robin Rhodes.

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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. I write emotionally, and it moves me when I see it,” Van Stockum said. Off we go, and we find all kinds of new places.”

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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. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.”

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It is “an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience ”. In autoethnographic work, the researcher conducts anthropological fieldwork on himself/herself/themselves and their experiences. We must thrive.”

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Issued: January 19, 2024 Response deadline: February 2, 2024 Pitch responses: February 7, 2024 First drafts due: February 21, 2024 For our second issue of 2024, Anthropology News invites you to explore the anatomy of deception and dissect the truths and untruths that form our understanding of reality. What forms do these deceptions take?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 18, 2024

(1928–2023) Oswald Werner, who was with the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University for over 30 years, died at the age of 95 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on March 26, 2023. He then went back to Germany, where he served in an anti-tank and -mine platoon, and by 1953 became a publicity and public information photographer.

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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

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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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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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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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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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

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? The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Is it right? I can use this!

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Espoused Values and Beliefs The first source of information ought to come from your espoused values and beliefs. 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. How long has it been since you reviewed it? The Who’s in Class?

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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. Aaron Su and Jieun Cho are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology The post Being Global and Chinese on WeChat 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. It fosters an awareness of these critical issues and encourages students to think critically and develop well-informed solutions. Interdisciplinary connections matter in social studies.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 24, 2024

I began researching Parkinson’s fighters and experiences of living with the disease over four years ago for my doctoral research in psychological and medical anthropology. That’s because, for one, exercise enhances plasticity, or the brain’s natural abilities to learn and encode new information. What matters is getting back up.

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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

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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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

Psychological anthropology displays an arc of theoretical approaches ranging from scientific positivism, which embraces objectivity and the scientific method, through various hermeneutic humanisms that emphasize the role of subjectivity in fieldwork and writing (Suárez-Orozco 1994).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

That information is based on a survey distributed to adjuncts who are AFT members and, through social media, to adjuncts who are not members of the union; 1,043 responded. More than one in four adjuncts earn below the federal poverty level for a family of four, another new report, from the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, finds.

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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.

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TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

The teacher’s task is to organize a process which already occurs spontaneously, to “fill” the students by making deposits of information which he of she considers to constitute true knowledge. (2) Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information. Footnote #8: Sartre, op.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

By getting rid of grades, we get rid of crucial information that parents and students use to determine what they’re getting out of the expensive educations they’re paying for,” said Bradley Jackson, vice president of policy at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. By comparison, she said, higher-income classmates “had Ph.D.

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Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Definition: Urban Anthropology examines the social organization of the city, looking at the kinds of social relationship and pattern of social life unique to cities and comparing their different cultural and historical contexts. Roberts 1978).

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

9, 2007, highlighting how individual lenders and borrowers match with each other in a community But after years of exploration, the P2P platforms started to “innovate” their models by acting like unregulated banks, while claiming that they were doing “information” matching. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on Aug.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Basil informed me that these powerful waves, called lololo in Taumako (or “tidal waves” in Solomons Pijin), accompany bad weather and make fishing (or turtle hunting) difficult. The post Perils of Subsistence on a South Sea Island appeared first on Anthropology News.

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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 for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

He also used the word “enredero”to designate the cumbersome information and negotiation meetings with electric companies and their constant excuses for not repairing roads or executing the “social investment” they promised. These informal grid connections feed long-standing conflict with Air-e.

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Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 22, 2023

Culture and Personality Culture and personality is the name of a broad unrecognized movement which brings cultural anthropology, psychology and psychiatry together from about 1928 to 1955. After 1960s the field becomes known as psychological anthropology. Anti culture personality position.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 16, 2024

Even the most precarious informal jobs—such as moto-taxi driver—required some English to interact with foreigners. The post Putting Language to Work in the Dominican Republic appeared first on Anthropology News. Because of these realities, students desired—and carved out—opportunities to enact multilingualism on their own terms.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The room is cold, and I feel an expectant sort of danger as I enter it, like I am walking to the gallows, where my sentence is read by two large LED screens displaying my treatment information. The post Radiation Drain appeared first on Anthropology News.

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