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Sapiens
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Of course, we must remain clear that grave wealth may not equate to leadership, and archaeologists remain critical about that link. Yet we do find some mention of female leadership in classical texts. Read more from the archives: When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 23, 2025
1933-2024 Credit: Penny de los Santos Sally McLendon (1933-2024) Sally McLendon was an American scholar of Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in North America, with a special focus on the Indigenous languages and communities of Northern California.
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Anthropology News
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Thankfully, we have records of past Afro-descendant entrepreneurs through both written and oral histories. In autoethnographic work, the researcher conducts anthropological fieldwork on himself/herself/themselves and their experiences. Turning one’s gaze south, the works of historian Michael L.
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.”
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). The leadership is rather situational and it is never transmitted from one generation to the next. Similarly the Greek word Phule also represented Indo-European Social Organisations.
Anthropology News
JUNE 27, 2024
Grove, Jubilee Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Courtesy Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, passed away on May 24, 2023, at the age of 87 after a long illness. There were also many articles on Chalcatzingo and the place of Olmecs in Mesoamerican history.
Anthropology for Beginners
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. In management science there are studies of the ideal size of corporations, and some in anthropology and sociology study the ideal size of villages. lakh villages and nearly 99.6
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