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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

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.

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Jehovah’s Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia

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Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. Jean Hunleth and Samar Al-Bulushi are the section contributing editors for the Association for Africanist Anthropology.

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Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal

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And here in South Africa where Koffi Kouakou resides, a newly elected Coalition Government is still going through teething challenges of its own. The post Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal appeared first on Anthropology News. The recent elections marked 30 years since South Africa stepped into democracy.

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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

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Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. Their infamous love of liberty, radical egalitarianism, and staunch resistance to being governed by powerful outsiders granted them some celebrity across colonial sources. What they really aim for is to govern the county themselves, from the city of Gualaquiza.

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Illegibility and Immobility in the Social Lives of Muslim Migrants in Japan

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Since the 1970s, Japanese society has increasingly relied on migrants to fill a variety of jobs, although the government has been slow to acknowledge or support them. Although the Japanese government does not record the religion of migrants living in Japan, scholars estimate that 230,000 Muslims are living there as of 2020.

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Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

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He also worked for the US government, polygraphing German prisoners of war during World War II, as well as hundreds of employees of the top-secret uranium production facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. appeared first on Anthropology News. He persuaded banks that it would help them identify employees who embezzled.

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Towards an Anthropological Praxis of User Data

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Corporations and governments alike now routinely create, purchase, and exchange user data—and not just in the Global North. PC Magazine concisely defines user data as “any data a user creates or owns,” but this flaunts the crux of user data’s ethical quagmire: to what extent do any users own their data?