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.net

MARCH 10, 2025

In a new paper published in Advances in Archaeological Practice 1 , Ward and his colleagues are calling for museums to take a more ethical, culturally informed approach to caring for the bones of animals, particularly those tied to Indigenous traditions. Why are you keeping them if you're not going to care for them?" M., & Nelson, S.

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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.”

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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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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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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

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. Colonial disruptions of traditional societies also contributed to the waning of this hunting strategy.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

People of traditional college age, between 18 and 25, are also in the age group that is more likely than any other to experience mental illness , and most mental health conditions develop by the age of 24. She completely lacked interest in and motivation for her anthropology coursework, which she had previously loved.

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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. Unlike traditional thrown spears, braced pikes allowed hunters to plant their weapon securely in the ground, increasing their chances of successfully stopping and killing large prey. 1 Byram, R.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Amid it all, one student enthusiastically weaved through the crowd, an iPhone in hand, documenting the rehearsal. To enhance immersive experience, the performers wore beautiful traditional Mongolian robes, which they rented from an online costume shop.

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Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Definition: Urban Anthropology examines the social organization of the city, looking at the kinds of social relationship and pattern of social life unique to cities and comparing their different cultural and historical contexts. Roberts 1978).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

he said, noting that fields like literature, anthropology and psychology also grapple with issues of race, gender and sexuality. I refuse to kowtow to attempts to have me not teach what is the accepted and documented evidence within my field,” he said. What’s next?” Yet he is not backing down himself.

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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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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

That expansion included more documentation about the chacal, or what Mexican queer social critic Carlos Monsiváis called the “proletarian sensuality.” appeared first on Anthropology News. Enrique broke the stillness by lamenting, “How I wish I had a chacal like that. A manly man with a beard and big arms like those!”

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Researchers, institutions, and governments need to document the number of languages to develop and assess policies aimed at enhancing the vitality of dwindling languages. Fast forward to 2007, when the ISO 639-3 documented more than 7,500 languages, including ancient languages and languages that have no current users.

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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

According to postwar documents in the Stadtarchiv Stuttgart, Schwalb was employed by the city in the same office again and tasked with formulating a microclimate planning program ( Klimaplanung ) for the postwar reconstruction project of severely destroyed Stuttgart. The post The Aeroroutes of Stuttgart appeared first on Anthropology News.

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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. One party outlines a set of expectations for another.

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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. It ties to many anthropological concerns, past and present and across the subfields. Today, in too many places across the country, there are politically inspired, reactionary initiatives to silence such knowledge.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Hearst Museum of Anthropology taken by colleague Linda Waterfield. Born and educated in New York City, he matriculated at Yale University in 1970, graduating in 1974 with a dual degree in art history and anthropology and a senior thesis on the Japanese tea ceremony. Two central points of his analysis deserve attention.

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