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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. 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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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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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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Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

Anthropology for Beginners

A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control.

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Luther Gerlach

Anthropology News

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958.

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Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

Her ongoing work includes a co-edited volume on concepts, data, and methods in comparative law and politics, and projects examining institutions of electoral governance in Latin America, and how research methods are used in political science scholarship.