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The Emic Perspective of Generative AI

Teaching Anthropology

For anyone who has been teaching anthropology over the last two years, the latter will be of no surprise to you. (As While AI has simply not been in the hands of students long enough to have longitudinal data on its impacts, there is a growing slew of research that touts it as a learning tool for non-traditional students (such as Dai et al.,

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

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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Other Anthropology Schools: Translating Disciplinary Treasures for “Undisciplined” Minds

Anthropology News

The courses covered many domains—design, medicine, the environment—but most featured an anthropological flair, and most of the organizers had an anthropology background. I titled my course—one of the four core courses—“Tears of the Earth: An Anthropological Thinking Experiment.”

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Bones of Contention: New Evidence of Cannibalism in Magdalenian Culture

Anthropology.net

Cut Marks and Cracked Bones: The Case for Cannibalism Maszycka Cave is not new to the anthropological world. The problem was that, until recently, no definitive conclusion could be drawn about the purpose behind the human bone modifications. .

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Getting Your Ducks in a Row – an icebreaker activity

Teaching Anthropology

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada We are all familiar with Spurgeon’s adage: “begin as you mean to go on.” One of my course aims is to introduce students to how anthropology has changed and one aspect of this is through critiquing traditional typologies.

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Getting Your Ducks in a Row – an icebreaker activity

Teaching Anthropology

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada We are all familiar with Spurgeon’s adage: “begin as you mean to go on.” One of my course aims is to introduce students to how anthropology has changed and one aspect of this is through critiquing traditional typologies.

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Balancing Acts of Care from Kitchen to Cosmos

Anthropology News

In Patna, where traditional family structures often intersect with young women’s growing aspirations for education and social mobility, her understanding of care work offered a unique perspective on negotiating these seemingly competing demands. She viewed it as ethical labor that transforms the precarious mundane into the sacred.