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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

In 2015, while conducting anthropological fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, a member of our team (Cole) heard local women discussing how water shortages were triggering arguments between partners. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. On January 15, two days before the start of the 2024 school year, I joined 50 grade eight students and their guardians for an orientation at Launch, a high school in one of Cape Town’s oldest townships.

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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

Related: After its college closes, a rural community fights to keep a path to education open His classmates who will be affected by the changes “are such creatives at heart, and they all came here because they loved what they were doing,” said Bertram, who is also student government representative for the university’s College of Creative Arts.

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Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past

Anthropology News

This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations. Kerim was a man in his early thirties, a high school graduate working as a tradesman in construction.

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STUDENT VOICES: DACA students worry about ‘really tough times’ ahead

The Hechinger Report

Education goal: Bachelor’s degree in government and then law school. Education goal: Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, then medical school. I knew I wasn’t from here, but it didn’t hit me until senior year in high school when my class took a trip and we needed a passport and a social security number.

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The Mississippi Delta Chinese 100 Years Ago

Anthropology News

Nine-year-old Martha Lum , a Mississippi-born child of Chinese immigrants, was denied admission to the new Rosedale Consolidated High School despite having attended the white public school the previous year. president in the 2020s. A year later, his father, Tsee Fung Jow, sued on his sons behalf. But it did not define colored.

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Will that college degree pay off? Now you can finally see the numbers

The Hechinger Report

A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ithaca College costs $132,656, on average, and two years later, graduates are earning $19,227. That’s less than people in New York State earn with only a high school diploma and no college education. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Department of Education; 5.3