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An Ode to Jonathan Marks, or How I Became a Marksist

Anthropology 365

I met Jon Marks in 2015, when I enrolled in the Masters program in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I had just finished a Bachelors degree in anthropology and philosophy at East Carolina University, full of ideas but unsure where they might lead. in Anthropology, and a Ph.D. It wasnt therapy.

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Consumer Anthropology and AI: Teaching Business School Students

Teaching Anthropology

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix. Teaching Anthropology. Human Organization.

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Confronting Social Dogma with Anthropological Op-Eds: An Interview with Mark Mansperger, Darby Stapp, and Victoria Boozer

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The Journal of Northwest Anthropology (JONA) has just released Mark’s memoir, My Ideological Battle: Confronting Social Dogma with Anthropological Op-Eds. Did you learn anything about yourself, anthropology, or newspaper writing? Coming together in my pieces are my formal training in both economics and anthropology.

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Dog Domestication: A Tale of Alaskan Canids and Human Companionship

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Instead, their DNA suggests that multiple independent domestication events occurred throughout history. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 2019. Journal : Arctic Anthropology , 2020. Hounds Follow Those Who Feed Them: What the Ethnographic Record Reveals About Early Human-Canid Partnerships Authors : Lupo, K.

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Echoes of Movement: How the Grammar of Indigenous Languages Maps the Peopling of the Americas

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Linguistic bottlenecks and demographic echoes The study builds on a long-standing hypothesis in historical linguistics and evolutionary anthropology—that migration events, especially those involving small founder populations, reduce linguistic diversity. In this case, however, the origin is likely in the north.

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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

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In a political rally organized for the event, he proudly told a crowd in Bomboiza how they were already exporting the fruit to the United States, Canada, China, and Russia. Kunki wanted the world to know what they are doing in Bomboiza, so I, as a videographer, recorded the event and much of the work that has followed.

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In Iron Age Britain, Descent Was Matrilineal

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The error perhaps was in believing that this was a single event in a linear, evolutionary understanding of humanity through time. The Cambridge idea, building out of a theoretical link suggested by Engels, was that patriarchy was tied to agricultural production.