Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Issued: February 5, 2024 Pitches due: March 4, 2024 Decisions: March 22, 2024 First drafts due: April 17, 2024 Anthropology News invites submissions for the fourth issue of 2024, which will explore the multifaceted concept of “treasure” through an anthropological lens. Multimedia works should target approximately 10 minutes in length.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Issued: January 19, 2024 Response deadline: February 2, 2024 Pitch responses: February 7, 2024 First drafts due: February 21, 2024 For our second issue of 2024, Anthropology News invites you to explore the anatomy of deception and dissect the truths and untruths that form our understanding of reality. What forms do these deceptions take?

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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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways. This research challenges prevailing assumptions about speciation, offering a more nuanced framework for interpreting the evolutionary history of modern humans and their closest relatives. Journal : Evolutionary Anthropology , 2022. ” Dr. .

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Lagging behind in scientific understandings of human diversity, the medical profession is failing its oath to “do no harm.” ✽ Doctors lie daily. I was struck by an alarming dichotomy: Genetics and anthropology scholarship have unanimously refuted a biological basis for race. The reason lies deep in human history.

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TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

While we can't definitively say that these early humans crafted stone tools, our findings demonstrate that their hands were frequently used in ways that closely align with the actions necessary for human tool manipulation," explained Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen. afarensis , A.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 22, 2024

The reconstruction of early human evolution has largely been shaped by fossil evidence found in a few key locations in Africa. The eastern branch of the East African Rift System, encompassing renowned sites like Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania, is one of the most significant sources of early human fossils.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Subjects like this provide “a more responsible and informed approach that is about creating justice and about righting the wrongs of the past,” she says. These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. Credit: Photo: Leslie Ovalle for The Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Every world view distinguishes (a) part of the self from another part, thus establishing, as it were, a dialogue within the self; (b) a human nature from that which is nonhuman; (c) classes and categories of the human, i.e., social persons (e.g., Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 90, no.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In this essay, I reflect on the experience of curating Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings as an undocumented immigrant anthropologist and lessons regarding the potential for curatorial anthropology as a praxis of care. After all, experiencing a range of emotions makes us complex human beings.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The findings, published in Nature Communications 1 , reveal a wealth of information about the boy's ancestry, physical traits, health, and the environment in which he lived, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of prehistoric humans. Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia." Villalba-Mouco, V.,

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Their findings, now published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology 1 , highlight the importance of Arbreda as a site of continuous archaeological significance. It also raises questions about their social structures, dietary patterns, and eventual interactions with anatomically modern humans. 1 Lozano, M., Soler, J.,

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Instead, the researchers employ a developmental psychology framework, focusing on how gestures, motor skills, and cognitive development inform the artistic process. This suggests that children may have recognized and elaborated upon the figurative potential of their own creations, blending play and representation in a uniquely human way.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. Eventually, these designs were manipulated to convey more precise genealogical information."

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In their paper published in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 1 , the researchers argue that this type of play fulfills an evolutionary need inherited from our ape and early human ancestors. Modern humans, while less adept climbers than other primates, still retain the physical capacity to engage in these activities.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

And how can a better understanding of the student position inform higher education’s response to GenAI? The Spider in the Room Questions about teaching and learning are not new, especially in anthropology. Initial, informal focus groups and interviews led up to a large-scale survey co-designed with student input.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In Wayanad, a densely forested district in the state of Kerala, in South India, human-animal conflict is on the rise, with frequent reports of tigers preying on cattle, bears causing havoc, and elephants damaging property. But it is not only humans who are harmed in these conflicts.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Ariana Gunderson is a PhD student in Anthropology at Indiana University and the Anthropology News Section Editor for SAFN. I always come at that at the individual level: each body is different from a human variation perspective. I think that’s a big role that we can play in bringing humanity to the issue.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many of the programs affected are in the humanities and languages, making those disciplines less available to rural students than they are to urban and suburban ones. In all, more than 25 programs have now been eliminated there, many of them in the humanities. But students and faculty say it was still important to offer them.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

These values rest on the belief that humans are apart from natural systems rather than a part of these systems, creating tensions for federal land managers and residents. These tensions point to a fundamental disconnect in understandings of how humans and landscapes are connected. What’s going on back there to have that blocked off?

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

9, 2007, highlighting how individual lenders and borrowers match with each other in a community But after years of exploration, the P2P platforms started to “innovate” their models by acting like unregulated banks, while claiming that they were doing “information” matching. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on Aug.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It also revealed how technology can inform ideas of heat, since explanations of why something “works” also correspond to particular notions of comfort and discomfort, weather and health. Such “technical challenges” also constitute anthropological encounters with weather and technology.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Inside the grand, art deco-influenced building, students study rhetoric and sociology, Antigone and anthropology. In today’s world it’s no longer enough to find information and recite it.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of difference? In these regions, their lives become entangled with those of the humans with whom they share these spaces.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Over the course of the night, the narrator moves between waking and sleep as they try to make sense of the bandits’ attack based on bits of unreliable information. If I had convinced myself that I could not remember the sound of shots fired at human flesh, that delusion left me with all my breath. Did they confess?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After the shooting, I was invited to co-author an article on academic trauma for the American Journal of Human Biology. In my discipline of anthropology—a field inherently concerned with both cultural and biological diversity—there is an unsettling paradox. Be clear about available university services in your syllabus and LMS.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

These reasons reveal that behind every statistic is a human story, highlighting the harsh realities of a system sustained by structural inequalities. These bones exhibit several traits that change throughout life, providing valuable indicators of an individual’s age and are widely used in forensic anthropology.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As the anthropological definition of culture especially by scholars like E.B. Tylor includes everything from tools and artifacts to the abstract conceptualization of after-life, there are ample evidences which suggest that human evolution is as much as a social and cultural phenomenon as it is biological.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control.

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Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 22, 2023

Culture and Personality Culture and personality is the name of a broad unrecognized movement which brings cultural anthropology, psychology and psychiatry together from about 1928 to 1955. After 1960s the field becomes known as psychological anthropology. Approaches: The approaches range from positivism to various hermeneutic humanism.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived. Some universities are defunding and dismantling programs in archaeology , history , anthropology , art history , ancient languages , and classical studies. K–12 schools in the U.S.

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