Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In a few minutes, I would be arriving on Dongmen Island with a group of strangers to collaborate on an educational program called by its conveners “ a summer utopia with humanistic knowledge.” I titled my course—one of the four core courses—“Tears of the Earth: An Anthropological Thinking Experiment.”

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To his point, I find the current slew of handwashing videos on YouTube and other sites to be excellent resources for anthropology class projects, and utilize several in an activity that nurtures introductory students’ skills in critical thinking and observation. Human hygiene is taken as an example.

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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. Law, science and technological advancements lead to highly decentralized human endeavours. This is the largest experiment in decentralisation of governance in the history of humanity.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Stacey is Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University, specialising in the analysis of archaeological human remains. She was recently appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Follow Stacey on X (Twitter): @wardstaceym The post Stacey Ward first appeared on Teaching Anthropology.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Stacey is Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University, specialising in the analysis of archaeological human remains. She was recently appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Follow Stacey on X (Twitter): @wardstaceym The post Stacey Ward first appeared on Teaching Anthropology.

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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Editor Caroline is Professor of Human Ecology at the department of Anthropology, UCL. As an educator, her key interests lie in experiential and situated learning; research-based education; critical pedagogies in HE and student partnership in curriculum reform.

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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Editor Caroline is Professor of Human Ecology at the department of Anthropology, UCL. As an educator, her key interests lie in experiential and situated learning; research-based education; critical pedagogies in HE and student partnership in curriculum reform.

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 31, 2025

I had taken a couple of courses in anthropology and was excited by the fact that doing anthropology allowed me to engage in all of my interests: biology, conservation, ecology, and how humans fit in the world. I promised her that I would go back to school and complete my bachelor’s degree.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

But they seem to miss the most important education of all: how to relate their specialization to others in an increasingly interconnected world. The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. And how can educators and institutions change things?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

The course is part of the public university’s African and African Diaspora Studies master’s program, whose previous graduates have gone on to get doctorates or jobs in public policy, diplomacy, law, criminal justice, education, public health and journalism. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

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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. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping student-teacher relations in higher education in both exciting and worrying ways. What does the stereotype tell us about educational culture and structure more broadly? And how can a better understanding of the student position inform higher education’s response to GenAI?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Sheridan’s course is an example of an approach known as “campus as a living lab,” which seeks to simultaneously educate students and reduce the carbon footprint of college campuses. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

“It’s no longer enough to just be thinking about helping our students across the completion finish line,” said Courtney McBeth, senior vice president and chief program officer at Strada Education Network, which is helping to fund the project. Courtney McBeth, senior vice president and chief program officer, Strada Education Network.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. And critically, we partnered with local women activists who promote education and social change to address water insecurity.

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Anthropology News

JULY 27, 2024

Following elementary and high school education in Sioux Falls, he moved to Los Angeles near relatives, and took a summer job at North American Aviation (NAA). After army service, in 1959, Brown returned to El Camino and declared anthropology as his major. He transferred to UCLA to continue his anthropology courses with M.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

1929-2024 Leonard Glick Leonard Glick—educator, scholar, anthropologist, former psychiatrist, and wit—passed away peacefully at home with his family shortly after turning 94. In 1957 Len left medicine for a field that interested him far more, beginning the study of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and getting his PhD in 1963.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

But I guess one of my thoughts is that if you look through human history, the idea of an artist as being a career or a revenue generator, I mean, that’s really the exception. In Andrew Miller’s case, he sought to collaborate with his wife, artist Robyn Field in this oscillation between human and machine, story and art.

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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). Quality education and life-long learning opportunity for all 5. Technological development should be input effective and not input utilizing.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Her research examines the conditions for justice during internal armed conflict, human rights prosecutions, transitional justice in post-communist Eastern European states, gender equality in post-conflict settings, and justice efforts in democracies. Professor Lindbloom completed her M.A. in sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

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. These efforts have been built without the warmth of tinto, the stick of hot plastic chairs, or the pulse of broader human presence.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Related: How to save the humanities? For example, the one archeologist on staff across the five participating campuses developed an anthropology course , delivered as a hybrid seminar in the spring and followed by a summer field school where students excavated indigenous artifacts on Block Island, 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hualien is the headquarters of the Taiwanese Buddhist Tzu Chi Merit Foundation (慈濟功德會), with lay Buddhist volunteers all over the globe engaged in charity work, natural disaster relief, recycling, and environmental education. Lu Meihuan of the Department of Anthropology at National Tsinghua University.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is author of Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America (1919). She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (2016). Bogart will provide a walking tour of New York City's Civil War-era monuments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The cuts “take away from us, our education.” Rural Americans already have far less access to higher education than their counterparts in cities and suburbs. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to Hechinger’s free biweekly higher education newsletter. That kind of frustration is growing.

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TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

by TeachThought Staff Paulo Freire’s “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed” is a foundational text in educational theory. Written in the 1960s, this influential work remains as relevant today as it was at the time of its publication, offering insights into the nature of oppression and the transformative potential of education.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 28, 2025

Madiha: I dont even feel human sometimes Madihas experiences sharply contrast Hamzas. I dont even feel human even sometimes.” Although migrants may come to Japan for similar reasons,likeprofessional or educational opportunities,their actual experiences in Japancan differ greatly. It was a struggle. It still is a struggle.

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 11, 2024

Abstract This dissertation investigates the coexistence of humans and javelinas in Texas. The dissertation argues that convivial human-javelina relations in Texas emerge from the negotiation of encounters—a form of intersubjective politics—leading to stable social arrangements and imbuing landscapes with meaning.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Lagging behind in scientific understandings of human diversity, the medical profession is failing its oath to “do no harm.” ✽ Doctors lie daily. I was struck by an alarming dichotomy: Genetics and anthropology scholarship have unanimously refuted a biological basis for race. The reason lies deep in human history.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I leave for class early, saving enough time to sit outside by the anthropology building and watch people go by. Archaeology is the study of our human ancestors. The bones tell many stories, such as what a human or animal relative ate, where they went, and how far they traveled. Not aloud, of course. The answer isn’t for me.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Conservative politicians today increasingly see social studies teachers as targets, attendees said.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunts conventionally presume that the treasure itself is artefactual, that is, it is generated through the processing of natural substances by humans (e.g., The local topography they surveilled incessantly did not necessarily evoke any human activity other than some spectral conjuring of symbols. tourism). a golden jewelry).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ‘s education supplement, Learning. . Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Classes run from 9 a.m.

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