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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. Why teach syndemics?

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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. Wall signs and foot markers materialized in a thrice. A barrage of how-to videos were posted on websites the world over.

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Learn more about: Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico

Political Science Now

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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Ethnography and Ethnology

Anthropology for Beginners

The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. Fischer, and other German scholars recruited by the Russian government to report on the peoples of the newly explored eastern territories. Petersburg in the 1760s, where he ed with G. Müller, J.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

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The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women.” For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. prisons and jails.

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GSA 2023 Keynote Speech: STRIVING FOR MENTAL WELL-BEING IN ACADEMIA

Anthropology 365

A 2019 survey by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors found that nearly 90% of counseling center directors report that the number of students on campus with severe psychological problems has continually increased, and counseling centers struggle to keep up with the demand.