Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old.

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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 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. Roughly the ethnographic approaches can be divided into the following traditions.

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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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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

He initially chose to study geography, but soon switched to anthropology, impressed by the introductory lectures in that field of study given by the renowned Africanist André Köbben. Anthropology professor Jeremy Boissevain became his supervisor. Anton Blok received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam.

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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.

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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 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. At one end of the continuum was the "modern" city of Merida, while at the other was a small, "traditional" indigenous village.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The collective aims to explore the intersection of craft, anthropological collaboration, and speculative futures in the Persian Gulf region. Fifteen students specializing in traditional handicrafts collaborated with local artisans to illustrate a children’s book.

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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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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has reconstructed the genomes of 13 individuals who lived between 1,300 and 10,000 years ago, revealing crucial insights into human migrations and population stability in southern Africa.

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Civics U

DECEMBER 22, 2021

From an anthropological as well a historical viewpoint, religion- that is, a people’s world view – is at the core of traditional cultures around the world. Christmas is obviously an important custom in American culture. On one hand traditional Christian activities continue.

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Anthropology News

JULY 20, 2024

In Greece, specifically, the nearness and farness of the stranger is rooted in claims of filoxenia (literally “love of the stranger,” but usually translated as “hospitality”) as a cultural and historical value. James Verinis is the contributing editor for the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

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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 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 9, 2024

While Tzu Chi promotes Buddhist veganism, Taiwan indigenous groups were hunting cultures that still love eating meat. What could Chinese Buddhism and indigenous cultures possibly share in terms of environmental outlooks? The government wants to protect wildlife populations in the mountains.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 4, 2024

For over two years, working at Owamni, a James-Beard-award-winning Indigenous restaurant, and NATIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems), their partnering culinary nonprofit, has changed not only what I eat but when and how much. lunches) that fall before or after traditional times of eating. dinners or 4 p.m.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2015, while conducting anthropological fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, a member of our team (Cole) heard local women discussing how water shortages were triggering arguments between partners. Too often these arguments turned violent, with men slapping, pushing, or otherwise beating their wives.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

Jesús belongs to Bolivia’s Criollo middle-class, and the land he bought up for Paradise Farm is located upon the traditional homelands of several Indigenous Guaraní, Ayoreo, and Chiquitanos communities. Taras Fedirko and Whitney Russell are section contributing editors for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

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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. Again, is anything ever really new? Something that Koffi Kouakou foregrounds. Koffi Kouakou: It.

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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. A screenshot of a man in traditional Japanese clothing talking to a rabbit; the text message below describes Fangyi’s thoughts of “loving the country you reside in.”

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 23, 2024

Recent research 1 has unveiled a remarkable technological adaptation used by the Clovis culture—a system of braced pikes that were likely employed in the hunting of massive megaherbivores and for defense against large predators. But for whatever reason, it hasn’t been talked about too much in anthropology.”

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

What does the stereotype tell us about educational culture and structure more broadly? The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Such worries were accompanied by statements such as “There should be a balance between AI and traditional education methods.” Is it right?

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Delhi has been long known as the melting pot of culture in India because so many different cultures and communities reside together—but it’s also melting in a different way due to its dense population, poor air quality, increasing humidity, and precarious weather. That’s where more traditional methods come in.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 2, 2024

As the 2024 Summer Olympics captivate audiences with extraordinary athletic displays, it presents a timely opportunity to delve into the fascinating anthropology of endurance running. Amidst the excitement of new sports like break dancing and kayak cross, traditional events such as gymnastics and the marathon continue to captivate.

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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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects. What is solidarity? Perhaps above all, it is to be lived.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

They were also rehearsing for a performance of The Semi-Conductor Radio Made in Shanghai, a show designed to showcase Mongolian culture to tourists from across the country. To enhance immersive experience, the performers wore beautiful traditional Mongolian robes, which they rented from an online costume shop.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. Disabatino, now a UCSC junior double-majoring in psychology and anthropology and also the first in her low-income family to go to college, said: “I kind of felt like a deer in the headlights.”.

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TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

Its enduring significance stems from its profound critique of traditional teaching and learning methods. Freire’s work critiques traditional pedagogical practices and offers a compelling vision for a more just and participatory education system. Footnote #8: Sartre, op. wouldn’t all this be a world?

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The scheme aims at planning their socio-economic development in a comprehensive manner while retaining the culture and heritage of the community by adopting habitat development approach and intervening in all spheres of their social and economic life, so that a visible impact is made in improvement of the quality of life of PVTGs.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A refusal to release myself from the discomfort—a commitment to remaining present—also allows my own vulnerability to blur the traditional line between care provider and patient. The post Birth Is Hot and Sweaty, and So Am I: Accessing Patient Care through Shared Discomfort appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Language now challenges traditional skills like physical and cognitive abilities in terms of importance on the labor market. What might be considered a friendly, personable voice among language workers in one culture, for example, might lead to confusion (or even irritation) in others.

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