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“We Have Always Been Here”: How DNA and Oral Tradition Aligned to Tell the Picuris Pueblo’s Deep Past

Anthropology.net

In this landscape stands Picuris Pueblo—a small, sovereign tribal nation whose history has long been narrated in stories passed down through generations. Some suggested that the great houses emptied into oblivion, their builders lost to history. Oral traditions ignored. Bones were taken. Burial grounds disturbed.

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An Ode to Jonathan Marks, or How I Became a Marksist

Anthropology 365

I met Jon Marks in 2015, when I enrolled in the Masters program in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I had just finished a Bachelors degree in anthropology and philosophy at East Carolina University, full of ideas but unsure where they might lead. in Anthropology, and a Ph.D. It wasnt therapy.

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Painting Through Change: How Aboriginal Artists Reimagined Animal Life in a Shifting Holocene Landscape

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For decades, they were thought to be remnants of an earlier, Ice Age aesthetic, part of a vast visual tradition called the Irregular Infill Animal Period (IIAP). Of the 151 rock art sites identified, 22 preserved animal depictions that broke stylistically with the earlier IIAP tradition. link] Ross, J., Westaway, M., Travers, M.,

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

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Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value.

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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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

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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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The Mythological Tapestry of Humanity: Unraveling Ancient Stories through Genes and Geography

Anthropology.net

Yet, could these stories also encode the history of humanity’s migrations and interactions? The findings not only link myths to ancient human migrations but also provide a unique interdisciplinary framework for exploring the intersection of genetics and cultural anthropology.