Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Among other things, Witness eschatological theology leads them to view all human governments as necessarily under the power of Satandespite the claims of the Zambian government enshrined in the Zambian constitution, for example, that Zambia is a “Christian nation.”

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Digital Promise

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And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. Separation of Disciplines.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

But tying us down strips our humanity away. Of course, care implies social and human relations between staff and residents. As a societylocal and globalwe must urge on the development of political, economic, legal, social, and moral frameworks that allow us to move towards a culture of care.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

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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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

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.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

But we also need to think about, ‘what are the outcomes beyond completion, in terms of economic mobility, first job, employment outcomes?’. We also need to think about, what are the outcomes beyond completion, in terms of economic mobility, first job, employment outcomes?” It’s an ‘and’ solution,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Over the past decade, a growing number of professors in fields as diverse as business, English and the performing arts have integrated their teaching with efforts to minimize their campuses’ waste and emissions, at a time when human-created climate change is fueling dangerous weather and making life on Earth increasingly unstable.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Sustainable development ties together concern for the carrying capacity of natural systems with the social, political, and economic challenges faced by humanity (Kahle and Gurel-Atay 2014). Promote sustained inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Technological development should be input effective and not input utilizing.

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Sapiens

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. Scientists predict that by 2050, more than half of the global population will live in areas that suffer from water scarcity for at least a month each year.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Communication factories that they are, management has the task of reformulating how we do language, eliminating human error while preserving what makes it “human.” For most operators, such skill takes hours of training, on top of years of practice—and even then, no one is immune to human error.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The question of which socio-economic dynamics aggravate and/or hinder treasure hunting has become one of my focal points during my field research in the Trabzon region in northeastern Turkey. The local topography they surveilled incessantly did not necessarily evoke any human activity other than some spectral conjuring of symbols.

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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. Here, the integration of human and cybernetic systems through app design further solidified people’s belief in the stability and power of P2P platforms.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Rather than focusing on exposure to heat or one’s inability to escape it, technology directs our attention to the concrete ways in which people attempt to manage, regulate, and respond to changing thermal conditions, as well as the economic spheres through which this is negotiated. The post COOL TECH appeared first on Anthropology News.

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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. Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

A landscape of human skull shapes These black-and-white maps are aesthetically attractive as well as invitingly strange. ” To be more precise: these maps plot a landscape of human skull shapes. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S.

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Perspectives in Anthropology

AUGUST 1, 2023

This essay explores the role of markets and money in the human economy. Written by Keith Hart World society has been formed as a single interactive network in our time. Universal means of communication are now available to give expression to universal ideas. They are intrinsic to the extension of society from the local to…

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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

JANUARY 11, 2024

Three years earlier, she had traveled to Baltimore to start a new life, joining thousands of Black Americans who left the South in pursuit of better economic opportunities in the mid-twentieth century. appeared first on Anthropology News. There, I find enough room to be with the dead, the ancestors who are gone too soon.

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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.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2024

Anthropological poems from around the globe speak to people’s creative will, resistance, and resilience—and the significance of our shared humanity. ✽ We asked authors to share their insights into “what brought humanity to this point [in history] and anthropology’s role in those processes.”

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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

JANUARY 9, 2024

The idea of “Man the Hunter” runs deep within anthropology, convincing people that hunting made us human, only men did the hunting, and therefore evolutionary forces must only have acted upon men. Such depictions are found not only in media, but in museums and introductory anthropology textbooks too.

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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 for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

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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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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Together with Guldin and philosophers such as Michel Serres and Arden Reed, I also aim to bring the wider sense of the term meteor—as various atmospheric forces and events—back into the discourse of philosophy, humanities, and beyond. The idea of allying with nature in a “more-than-human” collaboration isn’t always pure.

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Sapiens

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. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

American Anthropologist Ethnographic methods: Training norms and practices and the future of American anthropology Rosalyn Negrn, Amber Wutich, H. Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Michael G. Lacy, Amber Wutich, H. Russell Bernard, Kathryn S. Oths, Melissa Beresford, Shawna Bendeck, Julia R.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These efforts led to groundbreaking discoveries about the behavior, ecology, and evolution of the early ancestors of todays living apes, including humans. But like many Rusingans, Siembo had few opportunities to learn about the islands important role in humanitys evolutionary understanding.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 30, 2025

In 1995 he received the Conrad Arensberg Award from the American Anthropological Association. He became full professor and departmental chair in anthropology at University of Massachusetts, Boston, in September 1975, later serving as graduate dean. Nicole Gamst) The post Frederick Charles Gamst 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. As Bill Brown states, The story of objects asserting themselves as things, then, is the story of changed relation to the human subject.

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