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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. Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.” “The
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 News
JULY 20, 2024
The stranger as a general category of analysis stands out within the social sciences precisely for what Georg Simmel dubbed this “constellation” of “near[ness] and far[ness] at the same time.” James Verinis is the contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 1, 2018
These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. Bringing the Disciplines Together. Challenges of 21st-Century Learning.
Anthropology News
AUGUST 23, 2024
(1935-2024) On July 5, 2024 Dr. Alan Harwood, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, died at the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, Massachusetts surrounded by his children, Jessica and Seth Harwood, and his wife, Margot Welch.
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. In 1972 he left to join the faculty of the two-year-old Hampshire College as full professor and dean of social sciences.
Anthropology News
APRIL 30, 2024
Even amid the industry’s decline, P2P investors unaffected by platform bankruptcy were reportedly “the happiest” in China, per a 2018 China Academy of Social Sciences survey. The post Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China appeared first on Anthropology News.
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