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Painting Through Change: How Aboriginal Artists Reimagined Animal Life in a Shifting Holocene Landscape

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These animals—kangaroos and wallabies—hold deep spiritual and economic significance. Annual Review of Anthropology, 42, 103–119. Buried in the Sand: Archaeological and Anthropological Investigations of Indigenous Burial Traditions on Cape York Peninsula, Australia. J., & Watchman, A. link] Ross, J.,

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Spatial Turn in Urban Anthropology

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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Spatial turn in Urban Anthropology Contents Urban Space studies: 1 Contested Urban Space. 2 The methodological and theoretical use of spatiality within anthropology began with ethnographies that examined the relationship of architecture and culture. 1 Racialized Space.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

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i] History of the usage: The word “peasant” appears in English in late medieval and early modern times, when it was used to refer to the rural poor, rural residents, serfs, agricultural laborers, and the “common” or “simple” people. [ii]

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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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DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY

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DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics.

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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

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Click here for more details Aspects of the preservation and conservation of cultural intangibles include: folklore oral history language preservation Further reading: 1. The concept includes the ways and means of behavior in a society, and the often formal rules for operating in a particular cultural climate. New York: Thames and Hudson 2.

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Urbanisation

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In anthropology the study of the process of Urbanisation started with a debate on weather rural and urban are two distinctively identifiable and isolated poles or not. In anthropology the study of the process of Urbanisation started with a debate on weather rural and urban are two distinctively identifiable and isolated poles or not.