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Sally McLendon

Anthropology News

1933-2024 Credit: Penny de los Santos Sally McLendon (1933-2024) Sally McLendon was an American scholar of Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in North America, with a special focus on the Indigenous languages and communities of Northern California. She completed her Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1966.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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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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From Theory to Praxis: Entrepreneurship as Resistance 

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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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Tribe in the evolutionary scheme of social type

Anthropology for Beginners

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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Momentum builds for helping students adapt to college by nixing freshman grades

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It “brought to light the stressors students have in their lives,” said Nate Turcotte, an assistant professor in the Department of Leadership, Technology and Research at Florida Gulf Coast University who is using assessments other than grades. The Covid-19 pandemic made things even worse. historians teaching them in their fancy high schools.”.

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David Cliff Grove

Anthropology News

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. Gillespie, University of Florida) The post David Cliff Grove appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)

Anthropology for Beginners

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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