Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

i] History of the usage: The word “peasant” appears in English in late medieval and early modern times, when it was used to refer to the rural poor, rural residents, serfs, agricultural laborers, and the “common” or “simple” people.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ For a digital anthropology seminar at the University of Denver, I asked my students: “Why do the pressures of our lived realities demand a response through poetry?”

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Click here for more details Aspects of the preservation and conservation of cultural intangibles include: folklore oral history language preservation Further reading: 1. The concept includes the ways and means of behavior in a society, and the often formal rules for operating in a particular cultural climate. New York: Thames and Hudson 2.

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Anthropology for Beginners

JANUARY 3, 2021

Approaches: Society has been the central theoretical object of much European anthropology, especially *British social anthropology, so that any history of the theoretical use of the term swiftly becomes a history of anthropological theory.

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations?

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

She is a veteran social studies teacher who has taught Sociology, US History, World History, Anthropology, and Psychology. I would like to thank Catlin for creating the materials to help me survive and thrive as a blended teacher and for the opportunity to share my experiences with you.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The interview assignment encouraged them to see anthropology in conversation with their own families.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 of ancient human DNA from the Oakhurst rock shelter in South Africa is shedding new light on population history in one of the world’s earliest regions of modern human activity. These new results from southernmost Africa are quite different, and suggest a long history of relative genetic stability.”

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2025

An anthropologist and poet reflects on a journey of return that tells a larger story about human connection, acts of Indigenous solidarity, and the potential for repair within anthropology. Even now, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History alone has amassed the remains of more than 33,000 individuals. Died October, 1921.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. As the antiquity of man became established in the mid-nineteenth century and anthropological inquiry began to focus on evolutionary questions, the need for better data became clear.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 22, 2022

The word "tribe" has a long and ignoble history and remains one of the most variably used terms within and outside of anthropology (Helm 1968). Some believe that he introduced a new comparative and historical approach that laid the basis for the disciplines of anthropology and comparative jurisprudence.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced. “This shared Neanderthal ancestry marks a pivotal chapter in the history of modern humans outside Africa,” remarked Johannes Krause, the study’s senior author.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

User data, in turn, is potentially any information generated via our digital interactions or digitally recorded about us; it might include anything from text conversations to biometrics to credit history—along with any subsequent algorithmic inferring, interpreting, and predicting (however accurate or inaccurate) of our behaviors and attitudes.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Richard Wrangham, a retired professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, noted 2 that starch grains can be detected in teeth dating back at least 50,000 years. The largest drop in the size of the chewing teeth in the history of human evolution occurred around 1.8 Homo erectus : The First Cook?

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Key contributors to the study include Carl Lipo, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Science; Robert J. ” Rethinking Easter Island’s History The traditional narrative of Easter Island has long been used as a cautionary tale, an example of how human societies can cause their own destruction by depleting natural resources.

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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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Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 17, 2021

In anthropology the study of the process of Urbanisation started with a debate on weather rural and urban are two distinctively identifiable and isolated poles or not. In anthropology the study of the process of Urbanisation started with a debate on weather rural and urban are two distinctively identifiable and isolated poles or not.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

He majored in anthropology at Yale, writing a thesis on African folktales. His early anthropological career was influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss. David came to the University of Virginia in 1973, where he taught for 34 years and was a pivotal figure in building the newly established Department of Anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. Such interest also distracted from the breakthrough’s Nobel-worthy value: answering scientific questions about species’ history and evolution.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While studying to become a physician, I was one of the lucky few who had the chance to also study human genetic evolution and its impact on health—topics missing from most medical curricula but central to fields such as biological anthropology. The reason lies deep in human history. were not the result of scientific investigation.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Journal : Evolutionary Anthropology , 2022. What Defines a Species?

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Evolutionary, cultural, and social processes that seem unimaginable if we try to apply them to sapiens populations, as we understand them through cultural anthropology, history, and archaeology. This is the challenge Thorin presents us with.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The translocal nature of Tibetan diasporic kinship bonds has a history that extends beyond current transnational migrations. Ward discussed key anthropological findings regarding the effectiveness of translanguaging , or the intuitive mixing of multiple languages, in teaching and learning.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Braithwaite stresses that, “We need awareness of our situatedness—in time, space, in culture and in how we experience the flow of history through us. Renea Brathwaite, chief diversity officer and dean of professional studies at Vanguard University, is an advocate for a relentless pursuit of these metacognitive efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. Will history repeat? Former Florida governor and now senator Rick Scott set up a task force that recommended public universities charge more for “non-strategic majors” such as history and English. “Is

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. And it will differ from programs in military studies at colleges around the country, which focus on strategy, military systems and the history of warfare. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

She planned to major in digital media arts, but before she could start, Delta State eliminated that major, along with 20 other degree programs , including history, English, chemistry and music. Azariah Journey is a second-year graduate student in history at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, which is cutting 20 degree programs. “Is

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

By way of this maneuver, (settler) environmentalists attempt to claim innocence vis-à-vis an ongoing history of land expropriation, enslavement, and profit-driven growth from which they continue to benefit. Taras Fedirko and Whitney Russell are section contributing editors for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Study of Ancient Alaskan Canids To explore this complex history, a team of archaeologists led by François Lanoë from the University of Arizona analyzed 111 sets of bones from canids unearthed at archaeological sites across interior Alaska. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101081

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 90, no. Redfield, Robert 1956 Peasant Society and Culture: An Anthropological Approach to Civilization. Mendelson 1956): 1. Natural (biology, chemistry, physics) 3. of Chicago Press.

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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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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image credit: The Natural History Museum via Alamy Stock Photo) The Role of the Pinky in Early Tool Use The researchers observed that the pinky finger played a significant role in grasping, particularly in early hominins like A. These findings point to a progressive evolution of dexterity and fine motor skills within early hominins.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

By analyzing distinctive genetic markers, researchers quantified this percentage, shedding light on the enduring impact of interbreeding events in human evolutionary history. Dr. Benjamin Peter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology explained, “We show that the period of mixing was quite complex.

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