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. that predispose people to certain diseases.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Government agencies and NGOs promote cookstoves for women with the promise of reducing drudgery. Maja Jeranko and Anika Jugovic-Spajic are section contributing editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology. appeared first on Anthropology News. It has no place in scholarly work or policy statements.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. Tricia Niesz is the section contributing editor for the Council on Anthropology and Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

He has an office, access to professional training and government-provided health insurance. The comparatively poor working situation of American adjuncts “is a sad story,” said Jassim, who teaches corporate finance, real estate investment and managerial and engineering economics at McGill University. “It It breaks my heart.”

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. The primary aim of the policy was to correct several mishaps of the earlier policies centering on the Tribal population of the country.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Regardless of its conceptual newness, the narrative of AI is often framed within existing tropes of power dynamics, economic motivations, and ownership. Result African companies facing economic difficulties in 2024 are turn into artificial intelligence to reduce marketing and advertising expenses, raising concerns about potential job losses.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

As the state endeavors to cultivate fintech companies as catalysts for economic stimulation, there lies a strategic imperative for major platforms. Meanwhile, others persisted in rejecting the “Ponzi scheme participant” label imposed by the state, asserting, “I am an investor lured by the government for their ‘financial inclusion.’

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The ongoing process of postdisaster decontamination has resulted in hundreds of thousands of bags of contaminated topsoil and over a million metric tons of wastewater, and just as the disaster reduced once-thriving communities to ghostly memorials, it also led to a reimagination of the community’s economic and social infrastructure.

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Anthropology News

MAY 28, 2024

How do beggars gain access to public space in Guangzhou through such performances, navigating local governance and social norms? At the same time, however, the social issues caused by the market transition intensified and urged more “humanist” governance, according to the official jargon.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

His book, The Races of Europe (1899), is a prime example of this pseudoscientific approach to anthropology, but it was relatively non-controversial at the time. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. The maps shown here are all the work of William Z.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. Eastern Kentucky University shut down economics and other majors. Henderson State University in Arkansas dropped 25. Do I leave?” “Is

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management. A number of different groups are engaged in this process, including federal, state, and local government agencies; conservation organizations; and tribes.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 24, 2025

Due to the devaluation of such work, Doms are also severely economically marginalized. No person belonging to a privileged caste ever lives in such places, no matter what their economic circumstances. Traditionally, Doms have been associated with pig farming, sanitation work, crematorium work, and bamboo craft.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

The economic significance of shipbreaking means that national and international NGOs seeking to ban the industry in Bangladesh remain unpopular. Landless tenants and a low-income Hindu minority, they lack the social connections and economic leverage to have any political voice. The changes took place as late as 2011.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

This article is based on Brooke Bocast’s book, If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa, which won the 2023 Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) Outstanding Book Award. Makerere University exemplifies the contradictions that define Uganda’s economic rise over the past several decades.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations. The post Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

That, in turn, can help us link local conceptions of deceit to the social and economic contexts in which they are applied, contexts where logics of circulation are always front and center. Early that year, after a decade of political and economic turmoil , the country descended into one of the worst episodes of hyperinflation ever recorded.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Outside of anthropology, he became known for his popular salvos on work and democracyincluding the breakthrough publication Debt: The First 5,000 Years and his activism within the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011. At the time of his death, we were co-editing a book series at Pluto Press called Anthropology, Culture, and Society.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 16, 2024

Most educational programs in the Dominican Republic are designed with the assumption that helping youth learn English will prepare them for local jobs in the tourism industry and ultimately improve their economic livelihoods. The post Putting Language to Work in the Dominican Republic appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 25, 2025

They exploited a unique economic niche created by the Jim Crow segregation laws that prevented grocers from serving both white and black customers. Racial segregation and immigration were intertwined political issues, and the discipline of anthropology was thick in the middle. But it did not define colored.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. Israel, Rose argues, is ruled by a government that is systematically eliminating any chance for justice and peace. Everyone was enthusiastic to do so.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

After explaining the history of colonization as a process of intense economic extraction and political subjugation by imperial powers, she then explained that decolonization was something far more modest. In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Among the many anthropological outreach efforts around the worldwhich are typically led from the top down or by cultural outsidersthis homegrown organization is unique. This underscores the benefits of community involvement in anthropological work for everyone from locals to international publics.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 30, 2025

candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, my dissertation research brought me there to study how a hydroelectric dam, under construction since 2005, will impact the river and local residents in Assam and the neighboring state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Political Science Now

MAY 14, 2025

Sandip Sukhtankar is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. Prof Sukhtankars research interests are in development economics, political economy, and public economics, with a focus on governance and the delivery of public benefits and services.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In this article, I explore this history and the series of political and economic processes that have made bedsiding in Zambia into what it is today. Jean Hunleth and Samar Al-Bulushi are the section contributing editors for the Association for Africanist Anthropology. This has a history.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Government officials, conservationists, urban residents, and food vendors I came across did not doubt the agency of monkeys. On the other hand, government officials categorized monkeys as legal subjects of governance and recipients of uneven paternalistic stewardship. Credit: Kymberly Chu A dusky langur sits on a utility pole.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 million to $23 million as grants available to states.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In response, the Korean government launched a national suicide prevention project to expand access to psychological and psychiatric support, framing suicide, particularly for women, as a result of mental difficulty ( jeongsinjeok eoryeoum ). The post Practicing Self-Care Beyond Self appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

But what Im witnessing is not a usual beach scene for Kourou, the coastal town in French Guiana where Ive been living for the past six months for my doctoral research in anthropology. Everyone faces away from the sea, and no one seems remotely interested in taking a dip in the tropical waters. Rather, the crowd stares at a point west of town.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Corporations and governments alike now routinely create, purchase, and exchange user data—and not just in the Global North. In other words, I found myself in the unusual situation of occupying both “realms”—industry and academic anthropology—simultaneously.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Private banks and colleges would make those decisions together, Sam Clovis, a co-chair of Trump’s campaign and an economics professor at Iowa’s Morningside College, said in an interview. China and other economic rivals add them. Anthony Carnevale, director, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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