Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. And it is not an “engineering course for humanists.”.

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

The pandemic also took a toll on other historically marginalized groups: For example, the annual rate of death by suicide among elders over the age of 85 in Clark County, Nevada, increased by 14 percent across the pre- and post-pandemic periods, according to research in forensic anthropology. In fact, many of us rarely, if ever, testify.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

Through these poems, we pull an anthropological lens to our eye to look at critical questions of power and agency. In June 2024, our editorial team put out a call for submissions of anthropological poems of resistance, refusal, and wayfinding. Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights where Abalajon served as a translator.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In a recent commentary for the Journal for the Anthropology of North America , anthropologists Michele Friedner and Christine Sargent describe a conference in December 2023 in Amman, Jordan, that Friedner attended with journalists reporting on disability-related topics in the Middle East.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Inescapable Category of “User” Increasingly—and in unevenly distributed ways—user data informs the borders we’re permitted to cross , the care we’re eligible to receive , and our access to housing , insurance , and employment. At the same time, user data has become an everyday, ubiquitous phenomenon.

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