Anthropology News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology (JONA) has just released Mark’s memoir, My Ideological Battle: Confronting Social Dogma with Anthropological Op-Eds. Did you learn anything about yourself, anthropology, or newspaper writing? Coming together in my pieces are my formal training in both economics and anthropology.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

This document contains a set of readings, films, videos, and discussion questions that we share with other UO faculty interested in involving their students in the creation of the toe tags that are central to the HT94 installation. Lilia McEnaney is the section contributing editor for the Council for Museum Anthropology.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Nobel Prize winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, a husband and wife research team at MIT, documented how teenage street sellers who were excellent at mental arithmetic werent good at rudimentary classroom math. That would take a longer anthropological study to observe them over time.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

A recent paper in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology urges anthropologists and anatomists to confront the legacy of human skeletal collections and calls for a new ethical framework that prioritizes transparency, community collaboration, and respect for the deceased. Annual Review of Anthropology, 51 , 125-142.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The category includes archaeological remains, buildings and structures, landscapes and places, towns and neighborhoods, objects, historical documents, folk traditions, and other things associated with and valued by people. These include objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science or technology of a specified culture.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 17, 2024

While cannibalism has been documented in prehistoric contexts—such as at nearby Gough’s Cave in Cheddar Gorge, where Paleolithic humans likely consumed their dead as part of ritual practices—the events at Charterhouse Warren appear to be different. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 45, 94–108.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 25, 2025

After obtaining a GED, he earned a bachelors degree in anthropology at Brooklyn College and a masters degree at Wesleyan University under David P. Dell Hymes then invited him to pursue his doctorate in the University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Department. Powers appeared first on Anthropology News. McAllester.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

After decades documenting others migrations, I turned to my own familys food stories in 2022, when my uncle, Chandran, passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic. Documenting these food practices became a form of care, opening unexpected channels of communication.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 17, 2025

Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025). The burial, discovered in the Shengjindian Cemetery and dated to between 202 BCE and 8 CE, is the first documented case of cinnabar-stained teeth in the archaeological record. But one detail stood out among the usual burial goods: her teeth were stained a deep, unnatural red.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

link] The Directory is, in itself, an interesting document for understanding the language practices of the Jewish community just before Tunisias independence in 1956. Through the lens of ethnography and linguistic anthropology, the case of Tunisian Jews sheds light on the dynamics of language preservation, loss, and reclamation in migration.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. Ethnography in this sense included the culling of material from documents and interviews with visitors returning from foreign lands and the redaction of this material into learned treatises.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The idea is predicated on the degree to which human behavior is held to be culturally determined, a basic tenet of American cultural anthropology. Strong cultural relativists often see anthropology more as an art than a science and prefer to interpret symbolic meanings rather than explain social mechanisms. Hollis & Lukes 1982).

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Twitty document the business ventures of Black women who as “ enslaved Africans in North America would make okra soup, oxtails, and pepper-pot soup and sell them on the street and at market along with fritters…the esteemed pepper pot that was popularized by Black women hawking it on the streets.” We must thrive.”

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Issued: February 5, 2024 Pitches due: March 4, 2024 Decisions: March 22, 2024 First drafts due: April 17, 2024 Anthropology News invites submissions for the fourth issue of 2024, which will explore the multifaceted concept of “treasure” through an anthropological lens. Multimedia works should target approximately 10 minutes in length.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

These groups gathered outside slaughterhouses, located in the periphery of the city, to document and bear witness to the deaths of factory-farmed animals and, when possible, rescue any who escaped. Activists knew they needed their own documentation. The post Slaughterhouse Vigils appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The paper argues that the first step in addressing this issue is thorough documentation—museums need to know what they have and where it came from. But some basic steps could go a long way: Cataloging remains – Museums need to assess and document what they have in their collections. Related Research Luby, E.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Anthropological fieldwork often necessitates that researchers unlearn prejudice and reflexively oscillate between apprehending our own subjectivities and maintaining dispassionate distance. The researcher’s urge to document everything I was witnessing overcame me, even in those moments of pain and uncertainty.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Migrant workers often take the riskier jobs and may miss out on both official training and labor documentation entitling them to work-related compensations. Taras Fedirko and Whitney Russell are section contributing editors for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

Ksâr ‘Akil 4 remained unknown to researchers until 2019 when we—an archaeologist and a biological anthropologist—found a photograph of those teeth within towers of carboard boxes of documents from the Ksâr ‘Akil excavations. But first, he decided to inspect the notes, papers, letters, and photographs that documented the site.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In this essay, I reflect on the experience of curating Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings as an undocumented immigrant anthropologist and lessons regarding the potential for curatorial anthropology as a praxis of care. The post Curating Immigrant Life: A Praxis of Care appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This Herculean field effort allowed the recovery of the tiniest remains, which were carefully documented in their original positions. Evolutionary, cultural, and social processes that seem unimaginable if we try to apply them to sapiens populations, as we understand them through cultural anthropology, history, and archaeology.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The connection between poor water quality and serious threats to health, such as gastrointestinal infections and diarrhea, are well-documented. 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.

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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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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Intended Readership The book is intended for scholars and students in anthropology, environmental studies, and animal studies, particularly those with interests in human-environment relations, multispecies ethnography, and human-animal relations. Ethology was an invaluable tool used to document and interpret javelina behaviors.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The research is among the latest to document the woes of what has grown into an army of 792,000 U.S. Though much of the conversation around these salaries and benefits has centered on the toll it takes on adjunct faculty members themselves, researchers have turned to documenting how it is affecting students. Related: What’s in a word?

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Take Susan Blum’s work on plagiarism, which documents the disconnection between old-school academic standards and today’s students. And how can a better understanding of the student position inform higher education’s response to GenAI?

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Richard Wrangham, a retired professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, noted 2 that starch grains can be detected in teeth dating back at least 50,000 years. Such findings have been documented at several ancient sites, pointing to controlled fire use among early hominins.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Through this lens, Ordinary Treasures not only documents personal stories but also advocates for a deeper solidarity with those who have been displaced. The post Echoes of Home: Unearthing the Value of Personal Treasures in Forced Displacement Narratives appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Classical Philology, Anthropology, Archaeology, History, etc.) The document should provide the following information: paper title, name, email address, departmental and university affiliation, and year of study. or geo-temporal focus (e.g. Interested students should email an abstract, no more than 300 words, in pdf.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 17, 2024

Global Practices Drawing from documented observations across 272 locations worldwide, the study demonstrates the widespread use of endurance pursuits by various nomadic groups.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At AAA, her major responsibility was revamping the “Major in Anthropology” poster. She also spent time at the NHHC’s UAB documenting artifacts from their considerable historical collection in their laboratory. A fascinating world of anthropology was opened to us, revealing numerous career possibilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She completely lacked interest in and motivation for her anthropology coursework, which she had previously loved. Roy said it’s essential for colleges to have clear policies on leaves of absence to ensure that students know exactly what is expected of them and what kind of documentation they need and from whom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

Our study documents some of the ways that the historical processes of colonization and displacement are reproduced in the United States, specifically through the education system. in anthropology. But participants in our study, “ Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub ,” say they do not feel that way yet. He holds a Ph.D.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Here, in photographic collaboration with Ash Marinaccio, I’d like to share an excerpt about the second part of my treatment—the heat of radiation—which is part of a larger project that documents my journey to facial reanimation following cancer treatment. The post Radiation Drain appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

MAY 28, 2024

I saw smaller notes and big declarations arranged with photos, hospital reports, and other official documents. Aaron Su and Jieun Cho are the section contributing editors for the Society for East Asian Anthropology. The post How Beggars Help Us Understand Public Space in China and Beyond appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 23, 2024

Similar weapons have been documented in the Late Holocene across North and South America, Africa, Eurasia, and Southeast Asia. But for whatever reason, it hasn’t been talked about too much in anthropology.” The use of braced pikes is not unique to North America. 1 Byram, R. Lightfoot, K.

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