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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

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Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes. The post Bits and Bytes Dont Leave Bones appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Tackling the Impossibility—and Necessity—of Counting the World’s Languages

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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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Food as Care: Stories of Forced Displacement and Connection

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Through these practices, they could not only evoke the flavors of home and pass down traditions but also begin mending wounds left by separation. Nala: Care as Reconceptualizing Tradition Payasam is the sweet, so it has to be sweet, Nala says of this creamy tapioca dessert, traditionally made for celebrations.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

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

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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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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

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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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Hidden Voices: How Judeo-Tunisian Arabic Lives on in France

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However, this does not mean that they have lost interest in the language and traditions of their parents and grandparents. In addition, these courses are accompanied by community events, such as a religious community dinner celebrating the holiday of Pessah/Passover in the traditional Tunisian Jewish manner. Nataf, Victor.