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Teaching Anthropology
DECEMBER 13, 2024
MerrillSinger, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. As medical anthropologist Lance Gravlee observed, syndemics has achieved a broader reach than most anthropological ideas. It is a syndemic.
Sapiens
OCTOBER 30, 2024
These values rest on the belief that humans are apart from natural systems rather than a part of these systems, creating tensions for federal land managers and residents. But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management.
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Anthropology News
AUGUST 18, 2024
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.
Teaching Anthropology
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
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.
Anthropology for Beginners
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
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.
Anthropology News
MARCH 4, 2025
First, when the government office tasked with the Tuam excavation initiated an early DNA sampling campaign for elderly and sick presumed relatives of children in the grave, the genetic kinship analysis provisions of the 2022 Institutional Burials Act became an object of contention. Two examples will suffice.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Many of the programs affected are in the humanities and languages, making those disciplines less available to rural students than they are to urban and suburban ones. In all, more than 25 programs have now been eliminated there, many of them in the humanities. But students and faculty say it was still important to offer them.
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