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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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

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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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.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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Sapiens

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 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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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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