Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Anthropologist Christopher Tilley beautifully phrases that often in material culture [t]he thing is the person and the person is the thing. The social life of these clothes had a shift, akin to the widely discussed binary shift from commodity to gift within anthropological discourse.

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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 2, 2025

Despite my training and my experience with adjacent fields, such as anthropology and philosophy, I became increasingly disdainful of the sprint toward objectivityan oasis mirage, especially as a historian of Africa. The archive was a burial site. In some, I listen for and try to sense unknown women.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

But behind every collection of bones stored in laboratories and museums lies a deeper story—one of power, consent, and ethics. The authors argue for several key reforms: Transparency in Collection Histories : Museums and universities should fully document and disclose the origins of their skeletal collections. link] Colwell, C.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism expresses the idea that the beliefs and practices of others are best understood in the light of the particular cultures in which they are found. Most societies are not relativist: they view their own ways as good, other people's as bad, inferior, or immoral a form of ETHNOCENTRISM.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. Three challenges in teaching anthropology. Teaching Anthropology 1 (2), pp.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On my campus, there is a zoological faculty, and its museum. This museum is filled with larvae in various stages of development, tadpoles and eggs, joining forces to enact different stages of a single life. Anthropology and taxidermy are not dissimilar practices. And all the photos?'” Because it demands, nags and snags.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

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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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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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe.

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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. That same year, another team, led by Berkeley’s Allan Wilson, reported DNA from a museum specimen of a quagga, a zebra-like creature that went extinct in the late 1800s.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. For both of us, this was our first show in a museum. Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Although, these categories of findings are often seen as ‘objective’ and scientific in nature and are not really linked to existing socio-cultural hierarchies, their use by the ruling dispensation like what Hoddar (2005) argues are nevertheless part of politics, politics of identity construction and formulation.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

Some universities are defunding and dismantling programs in archaeology , history , anthropology , art history , ancient languages , and classical studies. Ham used the spectacle to raise funds for his Creation Museum. I’m a relatively unknown scholar who can share the cultural achievements of past people around the world.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I leave for class early, saving enough time to sit outside by the anthropology building and watch people go by. As I walk into the dark, cool anthropology building, I remember the stories my elders told me of when the teachers at the Christian boarding schools and orphanages would beat them for speaking Yup’ik. Not aloud, of course.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Kennis brothers, courtesy of The Natural History Museum, London New Insights from Ancient Genomes A groundbreaking study analyzed 58 ancient Eurasian genomes alongside the DNA of 275 contemporary humans. Journal : American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.cell.2016.03.012 DOI : 10.1002/ajpa.21569

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The Redpath Museum on the campus of McGill University in Montreal. The comparatively poor working situation of American adjuncts “is a sad story,” said Jassim, who teaches corporate finance, real estate investment and managerial and engineering economics at McGill University. “It It breaks my heart.”

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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

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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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Kirsten Lindbloom, University of Wisconsin – River Falls Professor Kirsten Lindbloom (she/her/hers) is a faculty member in the sociology, criminology and anthropology department at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. Research interests include social movements, social justice and cultural genocide.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. He is currently working on a study of Civil War visual culture for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Visiting Lecturers and Session Leaders Louise Bernard is the director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. Gonzalez will lecture on the pre-war image of slavery.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Many museums are reckoning with the colonial legacies of the human remains and cultural objects in their collections. I wondered if any people before me who utilized his remains for their research had ever pieced together his storyor even contemplated how he got to the Natural History Museum in London. No bullet holes.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

19352024 Credit: Bill Shaw Barbara Joans, 1935-2024 A graduate of Brooklyn College, Barbara Joans earned her doctorate in anthropology at the City University of New York in 1974. There she opened a one-of-its-kind museum that housed, among other things, Native American artifacts as well as an exhibit of local Black bikers.

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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 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). Luckily, they’re only one stop apart.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 22, 2024

Space and science museums in South Korea promote outer space as the space of the future, where the children and students will one day have settlements or visit intergalactic hotels. Taras Fedirko and Whitney Russell are section contributing editors for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

American Anthropologist Ethnographic methods: Training norms and practices and the future of American anthropology Rosalyn Negrn, Amber Wutich, H. Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Michael G. Lacy, Amber Wutich, H. Russell Bernard, Kathryn S. Oths, Melissa Beresford, Shawna Bendeck, Julia R.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The limits of collections research and digital access flashed like a neon sign when we first partnered as graduate students for an undergraduate course on museum anthropology and community collaboration. We see care for museums as an understanding of our role as stewards and as makers of physical and digital ecosystems.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

His village was an expensive 12-hour bus ride from the Nairobi National Museum , where most of Kenyas fossils are housed, studied, and displayed. RIPO members and excavators Mackey Otwal (lower left) and Cliff Ocheing of the National Museums of Kenya uncover and document animal bones at Nyang Rise. Next come the questions.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Hearst Museum of Anthropology taken by colleague Linda Waterfield. Born and educated in New York City, he matriculated at Yale University in 1970, graduating in 1974 with a dual degree in art history and anthropology and a senior thesis on the Japanese tea ceremony. Two central points of his analysis deserve attention.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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