Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To his point, I find the current slew of handwashing videos on YouTube and other sites to be excellent resources for anthropology class projects, and utilize several in an activity that nurtures introductory students’ skills in critical thinking and observation. Human hygiene is taken as an example.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

THE WIDER DEBATE In the 1860s, Swiss anthropologist Johann Bachofen theorized from the information available to him at the time that there was a move from a matriarchal, or female-led society, to a patriarchal society only by the time of ancient Greece, meaning during the 1st millennium B.C.,

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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. Law, science and technological advancements lead to highly decentralized human endeavours. This is the largest experiment in decentralisation of governance in the history of humanity.

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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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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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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements.

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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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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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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.net

MARCH 10, 2025

“Even when they pass on, you still respect and honor them as non-human relatives. In a new paper published in Advances in Archaeological Practice 1 , Ward and his colleagues are calling for museums to take a more ethical, culturally informed approach to caring for the bones of animals, particularly those tied to Indigenous traditions.

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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 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.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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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 News

JANUARY 23, 2024

On social media, at dinner parties, and in the halls of academia, suddenly everyone has a theory of language and what role it plays in structuring human, and maybe computer, thought. The public is in the process of, to use Lucy Suchman ’s term, “refiguring” the dividing line between humans and machines.

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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

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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Anthropology.net

JULY 31, 2024

A study published on March 30 in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology sheds light on the linguistic journey of early Americans. The intersection of linguistic, archaeological, climatological, and genetic research continues to deepen our understanding of human migration and evolution. and Canada. 1 Nichols, J.

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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 365

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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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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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Together with Guldin and philosophers such as Michel Serres and Arden Reed, I also aim to bring the wider sense of the term meteor—as various atmospheric forces and events—back into the discourse of philosophy, humanities, and beyond. The idea of allying with nature in a “more-than-human” collaboration isn’t always pure.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

As a period researcher, people often tell you unsolicited personal information like this. There was a trend in news coverage of this project which minimized our disciplinary expertise (human biologists and anthropologists who study menstruation), while elevating the dismissive commentary of many MDs who were not specialists in menstruation.

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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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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

MerrillSinger, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. As medical anthropologist Lance Gravlee observed, syndemics has achieved a broader reach than most anthropological ideas. It is a syndemic.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2025

An anthropologist and poet reflects on a journey of return that tells a larger story about human connection, acts of Indigenous solidarity, and the potential for repair within anthropology. IN 2023, I BEGAN the process of consultation toward repatriation on behalf of the anthropology department.

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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 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.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

million years ago, reshaping our understanding of early human resilience and resourcefulness. This iconic landscape is known for its rich archaeological record and its pivotal role in unraveling human origins. ” This discovery changes how scientists view early human adaptability. “It’s not a one-time camp. .

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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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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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A recent study published in Evolution and Human Behaviour 1 challenges conventional narratives about gender roles, revealing a surprising level of equality in how work and leisure are shared in hunter-gatherer societies. Credit: Evolution and Human Behavior (2024). Nature Human Behaviour, 5(9), 1195–1205. Pontzer, H.,

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Throughout the next four hours, I talked in intervals of ten or twenty minutes in an informal way with male farmworkers between 18 and 55 years old. However, the corporation did not provide such information, and younger and more inexperienced farmworkers did not even know the locations of nearby urban centers.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A lobster is dismembered on a purple cushion to show its numerous components, and seven human fetuses float in jars, eyes variously opened or closed in eerie states of peace, calm, and disarray. Anthropology and taxidermy are not dissimilar practices. A taxidermic non-human animal stuffed and snarling in the attic.

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