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

MARCH 27, 2025

When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes. Digital migration, like any form of migration, is not neutral.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

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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. On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

“Even when they pass on, you still respect and honor them as non-human relatives. In archaeology’s early days, animal remains were often ignored, discarded, or treated as unimportant compared to human burials and artifacts. You don’t throw them in plastic bags or boxes.” Related Research Luby, E.

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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.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Please note that this article includes images of human remains. This long-lost child, represented only by a lower jaw, was referred to as Ksâr ‘Akil 4 because it was the fourth human fossil discovered at the site of Ksâr ‘Akil in Lebanon, on the Eastern Mediterranean coast. ANOTHER SET OF TEETH “These teeth don’t belong to Egbert!”

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: In what is today Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago. Archaeological excavations at Mandrin Cave revealed the remains of both Neanderthals and modern humans.

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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 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.net

MAY 17, 2024

Scientists uncover compelling evidence suggesting that the hunting strategies of early humans involved long-distance running, challenging conventional beliefs about the physical demands and efficiency of such pursuits. Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

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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. After all, experiencing a range of emotions makes us complex human beings.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. This contrasts with local statistics that document high rates of violence against women in the broader region. An estimated “1.8

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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. As one student said, “I am mostly concerned about AI replacing human interactions in the classroom.”

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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. Instead of highlighting what sets us apart, our film harnesses the power of these cherished objects to celebrate the shared bonds that connect us as human beings.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 23, 2024

This innovation, used during the Late Pleistocene, adds a new dimension to our understanding of early human survival strategies. Thousands of these points have been recovered, providing clues about the technology and skill of early humans. The use of braced pikes is not unique to North America.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 11, 2024

The bones of the human skull, for instance, register underwater sound insofar as they resist it. It makes sense that what is believed to be the earliest documented account of Tourette’s, from the fourteenth-century Malleus Maleficarum , culminates in an exorcism. with intensity and mutation.”

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Many museums are reckoning with the colonial legacies of the human remains and cultural objects in their collections. They face scrutiny from the public and researchers on how to best curate, research, and pay respects to cultural objects and, especially, human remains. HIS SKULL WAS FREE of visible trauma. No bullet holes.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Steward’s theory: Steward created a theoretical perspective that was distinctive in mid-20th-century anthropology. His theoretical ideas were the antithesis of humanistic and relativistic trends in cultural anthropology at the time. Over time, it became a unifying concept in American anthropology, spanning several subfields.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Anthropological poems from around the globe speak to people’s creative will, resistance, and resilience—and the significance of our shared humanity. ✽ We asked authors to share their insights into “what brought humanity to this point [in history] and anthropology’s role in those processes.”

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 14, 2024

. “This is the first evidence of Maya sacrifices involving twins, which were important for Maya [beliefs about the universe],” …says Barquera, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Potential Reasons for the Sacrifices The reasons for the fatal ritual remain unclear.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

My point is to communicate that there are many languages and, therefore, an incredible diversity of ways humans think, reason, and feel. Researchers, institutions, and governments need to document the number of languages to develop and assess policies aimed at enhancing the vitality of dwindling languages.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. Below, we present case studies from three anthropology courses using three different sets of AI tools.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Together with Guldin and philosophers such as Michel Serres and Arden Reed, I also aim to bring the wider sense of the term meteor—as various atmospheric forces and events—back into the discourse of philosophy, humanities, and beyond. The idea of allying with nature in a “more-than-human” collaboration isn’t always pure.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These efforts led to groundbreaking discoveries about the behavior, ecology, and evolution of the early ancestors of todays living apes, including humans. But like many Rusingans, Siembo had few opportunities to learn about the islands important role in humanitys evolutionary understanding.

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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. As Bill Brown states, The story of objects asserting themselves as things, then, is the story of changed relation to the human subject.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Nevertheless, the scientific facts are there and the long history of race and racialization is documented. Remaining also are the human stories of those harmed by racism. It ties to many anthropological concerns, past and present and across the subfields. We felt less than humane, now black mental health rates look depressing.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This series brings together writing from several members of a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project called ARIES (Anthropological Research into the Imaginaries and Exploration of Space). In part, thats because space exploration can bring up conflicts between different ways of knowing, valuing, and relating to the cosmos.

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