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Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As requested by the local Tibetan community, a linguistic anthropologist (Ward) and graduate student (Moli) adapted the Buddhist-inspired framework of SEE Learning to facilitate reflections on best practices in Tibetan heritage language education. With the other hand, she holds up a smart phone to face towards the infant.

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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Heritage studies constitute a developing field, where it is realized that the world’s cultural heritage is a diminishing resource, and one which holds different meanings for different people. Different state archaeology departments also actively engage themselves in declaring certain archaeologically important artefact as heritage.

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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

Sapiens

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Spain has a deep and far-reaching colonial history, particularly in Latin America. The claim that Spain’s imperialism isn’t true colonization reflects a reluctance to confront the darker aspects of the country’s history, which involved widespread exploitation, violence, and cultural erasure across continents.

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Heatcraft: Handmade Story of an Iceshelf in the Persian Gulf

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The collective aims to explore the intersection of craft, anthropological collaboration, and speculative futures in the Persian Gulf region. This ancient city, with a history spanning over 2,000 years, is still inhabited and preserves traditional structures such as windcatchers.

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120,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Teeth Discovered in Catalonia

Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Collaborative Research The groundbreaking study was led by IPHES-CERCA in collaboration with the University Rovira i Virgili, the Catalan Cultural Heritage Research Institute, the University of Girona Institute of History Research, the University of Bordeaux, and Catalonia’s International University. 1 Lozano, M., Soler, J.,

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Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations.

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Charting Uncharted: A Portrayal of Treasure Hunting

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Uncharted doesn’t stand alone in the narrative it serves, but it is a notable entry in a long line of pulp fictions that treat tangible cultural heritage as objects that can be removed from their context with no change in significance. This is how Nathan interacts with treasure and heritage sites.

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The Evolutionary Importance of Risky Play: Challenging Limits for Childhood Development

Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Origins of Risky Play: A Legacy from Early Humans Co-author Zane Thayer, associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth, explains that although children today are physically safer than ever before, societal anxiety about injuries has never been higher. ” The researchers connect this concept to our evolutionary history.

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Knowledge / Ignorance and Caring About the Food We Eat and Study

Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Ariana Gunderson is a PhD student in Anthropology at Indiana University and the Anthropology News Section Editor for SAFN. Rationally, I know my choice not to buy bananas (or pineapple) is so minimal within the issue when you think about the overall systemic structure, complexity, and history of our unjust food system.

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Discovering a Monumental Megalithic Structure in Northern Peru

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Dating back to the Late Preceramic Period, this plaza predates iconic structures like the Great Pyramids of Egypt and Stonehenge, marking it as a significant milestone in architectural history. Through outreach efforts, the team works closely with local residents to share findings and preserve cultural heritage. 1 Toohey, J.

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Do You Want to Write for SAPIENS?

Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation. I’m an archaeologist anthropologist who started writing in the anthropology publication about 15 years ago and had the seed idea of what would become SAPIENS and brought it to fruition. That topically we are focusing on anthropology.

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A Tale of Two Internships

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For six weeks, we spent 40 percent of our time at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) office and 60 percent of our time at partner institutions: the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC).

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The Enigma of Liver Steatosis: Insights from Archaeogenetics

Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2024

Recent research 1 conducted by interdisciplinary teams from Würzburg University Hospital (UKW), Homburg University Hospital (UKS), and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (MPI-EVA) aims to shed light on the genetic basis of liver steatosis through an archaeogenetic lens.

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On Language, Belonging and Being a #NoSaboKid

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

While overregulation occurs across linguistic contexts, the specificity of the #NoSaboKid is co-constitutive with histories of immigration from Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to Anglophone countries like the United States. In taking a lead from Salva and L.A.,

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The Semi-Conductor Radio Made in Shanghai

Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Bonded by their shared experiences of never having had the opportunity to learn their heritage language, they come together every day to take beginner-level Mongolian classes and sing Mongolian songs. The post The Semi-Conductor Radio Made in Shanghai appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Why I Talked to Pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on Joe Rogan

Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

Pseudoarchaeology, or “alternative history,” draws major attention and casts itself as legitimate. Beyond Hancock’s creations, Ancient Aliens dominates the History Channel. Some universities are defunding and dismantling programs in archaeology , history , anthropology , art history , ancient languages , and classical studies.

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Archaeology Heritage K-12 History

Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict

Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2024

Anthropological poems from around the globe speak to people’s creative will, resistance, and resilience—and the significance of our shared humanity. ✽ We asked authors to share their insights into “what brought humanity to this point [in history] and anthropology’s role in those processes.” Indigenous anthropologist Jenny L.

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???“Å falle mellom to stoler”: Africans in Norway

Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you study Blackness in a place that denies its local history of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black structural violence? One of the challenges we face as African Norwegians is that our history in the country we have come to call home often is not well known, both within and outside our communities. As we’ve always done.

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

Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

My task set me on a path to understanding the history and craft of counting languages. Take, for example, the 1986 Men’s FIFA World Cup in Mexico, which featured the most amazing goal in the history of football (or “soccer,” depending on which variety of English you speak). But even this gets convoluted.

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Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

Heatcraft: Handmade Story of an Iceshelf in the Persian Gulf

120,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Teeth Discovered in Catalonia

Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past

Charting Uncharted: A Portrayal of Treasure Hunting

The Evolutionary Importance of Risky Play: Challenging Limits for Childhood Development

Knowledge / Ignorance and Caring About the Food We Eat and Study

Discovering a Monumental Megalithic Structure in Northern Peru

Do You Want to Write for SAPIENS?

A Tale of Two Internships

The Enigma of Liver Steatosis: Insights from Archaeogenetics

On Language, Belonging and Being a #NoSaboKid

The Semi-Conductor Radio Made in Shanghai

Why I Talked to Pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on Joe Rogan

Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict

???“Å falle mellom to stoler”: Africans in Norway

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

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