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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. These scholarly traditions produced a wealth of theory and data that has been discovered by contemporary anthropology, but they do not constitute the historical back ground of the anthropology of peasantry.

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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

Anthropology for Beginners

Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. How were those pots used?

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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The Evolutionary Mechanisms of Social Structures Driven by Gift-Giving Practices

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The research, conducted by Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko from the University of Tokyo, Copenhagen University, and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, delves into how competitive gift-giving practices contribute to the emergence of economic and social disparities within human societies. 1 Itao, K., & Kaneko, K.

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Tribe as a Pre-political and pre-contractual society and in the evolutionary schema (Morgan and Maine)

Anthropology for Beginners

The word "tribe" has a long and ignoble history and remains one of the most variably used terms within and outside of anthropology (Helm 1968). The evolutionism of 19 th century saw human beings as making uniform ‘progress’ and evidences such as the continuation of ‘primitive’ traits like pottery is example of cultural survivals (Tylor 1871).

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Curating Immigrant Life: A Praxis of Care

Anthropology News

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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Fire’s Alter-Lives: Climate Change Adaption and Settler Futurity in Bolivia

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Narratives of climate apocalypse and Anthropocene dystopia often evoke Christian narratives of the end-times, with environmental change as a symptom of insufficient human piety. In this way, fantasies of climate solidarity evoke “universal human frailty” in ways that problematically circumvent issues of uneven yet “ specific culpability.”