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Tackling the Impossibility—and Necessity—of Counting the World’s Languages

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My point is to communicate that there are many languages and, therefore, an incredible diversity of ways humans think, reason, and feel. The speakers of many of these languages live deep within roadless rainforests in villages that are very difficult for government representatives and other researchers to access.

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Anthropology at a Crossroads: Confronting Challenges and Reimagining the Future

Anthropology News

Anthropology has long been celebrated as a discipline that offers profound insights into human cultures, societies, and behaviors. Its holistic approach and emphasis on reflexivity have contributed significantly to our understanding of the human experience.

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DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology for Beginners

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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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class 

Teaching Anthropology

Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction on cleansing one’s hands. Human hygiene is taken as an example. Wall signs and foot markers materialized in a thrice.

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes. Digital migration, like any form of migration, is not neutral.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old.

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South Africa’s Road Out of Colonialism

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Now interested in this highways history, she explores how this and other roads were used to expand territory and exploit people during South Africas colonial periods under Dutch and British rule, and how they kept people separate during the countrys apartheid government from 1948 to 1994. Nicole van Zyl is a South African lawyer and Ph.D.