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Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? This Teaching Anthropology Special Issue will explore approaches to trauma-informed anthropology and to consider key emerging discussions around trauma-informed approaches more broadly.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

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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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

That was apparent in January when the Board of Governors for Florida’s state university system, in approving regulations for the new anti-DEI law, also removed sociology from the list of courses that meet general education requirements. (On On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”)

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What Does Blended Learning Look Like in an AP Class?

Catlin Tucker

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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Worldview

Anthropology for Beginners

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.

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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

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. Related: Despite family and work commitments, student veterans outpace classmates.

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The skull maps that quantified racism

Strange Maps

His book, The Races of Europe (1899), is a prime example of this pseudoscientific approach to anthropology, but it was relatively non-controversial at the time. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. The maps shown here are all the work of William Z.