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Cementing the Past

Sapiens

APRIL 1, 2025

A cover of Unifruitco Magazine , a publication of the United Fruit Company, promoted the companys restoration project at Zaculeu. candidate in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. SAPIENS is an editorially independent magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the University of Chicago Press.

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

Anthropology 365

APRIL 23, 2025

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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A Venezuelan Election … in Chile

Sapiens

APRIL 22, 2025

A Multinational, Multiethnic Alternative in Chile’s Migrant Settlements 221 Politicians, 23 Journalists, and Six Human Rights Activists Detained Since the Presidential Elections SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is produced by Written In Air. Is One Third of Venezuelas Population About to Flee?

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A Linguist’s Night at the Ball

Sapiens

APRIL 8, 2025

Dozandris research has been supported by a Society for Visual Anthropology/Lemelson Foundation Fellowship, the Duberman-Zal Fellowship from the Center for LGBTQ+ Studies, and grants from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB. The executive producers are Dennis Funk and Chip Colwell. Christine Weeber is the copy editor.

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Where Cultures Collide

Sapiens

MARCH 25, 2025

For the eighth season of the SAPIENS podcast, were meeting at a crossroads of culturespast and presentin search of humanitys collective destination. Through the lens of anthropology, we will examine what happens when human cultures meet, merge, and clashand what these encounters reveal about humanitys shared fate.

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South Africa’s Road Out of Colonialism

Sapiens

MAY 6, 2025

candidate in anthropology at the University of the Western Cape. Judgment Against Mining Without Community Consent: South Africa: North Gauteng High Court, Pretoria Xolobeni the Beautiful Pondoland Revolt SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is produced by Written In Air. Nicole van Zyl is a South African lawyer and Ph.D.

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Zambia’s Chinese Connection

Sapiens

MAY 13, 2025

His writing has appeared in The Chicago Tribune , The South China Morning Post , Anthropology News , Somatosphere , Cultural Anthropology , and elsewhere. SAPIENS is an editorially independent magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the University of Chicago Press. The executive producers are Dennis Funk and Chip Colwell.

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Ceasefire From the Earth and Sky

Sapiens

APRIL 29, 2025

She also details how a former excavationist remembers discovering human remains at the DMZ. Her dissertation builds upon the anthropology of borders and the economy, diaspora and transpacific studies, and critical disability frameworks. Yejoo Kim is a sociocultural anthropologist researching the political economy of the Korean DMZ.

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Making Anthropological Poetry Reel

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ For a digital anthropology seminar at the University of Denver, I asked my students: “Why do the pressures of our lived realities demand a response through poetry?”

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Call for Pitches: Care

Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. The post Call for Pitches: Care appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Call for Pitches: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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Call for Pitches: Deception

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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CFP: Treasure: Unearthing Value in Anthropology

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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Jehovah’s Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia

Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Congregants meet twice a week to read and discuss the Bible, have Q&A sessions for The Watchtower magazine teachings, and sing worship songs. Witnesses instead work to spread what they refer to as the truth to all humans. The post Jehovahs Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal

Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

But I guess one of my thoughts is that if you look through human history, the idea of an artist as being a career or a revenue generator, I mean, that’s really the exception. In Andrew Miller’s case, he sought to collaborate with his wife, artist Robyn Field in this oscillation between human and machine, story and art.

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Hunting, Gathering, and the Fluidity of Gender Roles

Sapiens

APRIL 15, 2025

This episode focuses on the complexities of work, gender, and power throughout human evolution. Evolutionary anthropologist Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias guides us through what these can tell us about gender roles in humanitys past and the origins of uneven power dynamics. A tree provides food for a Savanna Pum woman.

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Teaching Syndemics

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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A Poetics of Liberation: An Imagined Archive

Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

As the 2024 poet-in-resident at the magazine, she imaginatively reaches for new possibilities. For, I work extensively on Tanzanian heritage and human remains entrapped in Germany. In my work, I do not try to balance the blood-tinged scales of history, nor do I write toward retribution.

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Illegibility and Immobility in the Social Lives of Muslim Migrants in Japan

Anthropology News

MARCH 28, 2025

Growing up in 1960s Palestine, heused totranslate TIME Magazine articles into Arabic with his friends. Madiha: I dont even feel human sometimes Madihas experiences sharply contrast Hamzas. I dont even feel human even sometimes.” Hamza is fluent in English. Born to African immigrants, she grew up in a small European town.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.”

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William K. Powers

Anthropology News

MARCH 25, 2025

In the mid-1960s he published the magazine Powwow Trails and began authoring books for general audiences, including: Indian Dancing and Costumes , Indians of the Northern Plains , Indians of the Southern Plains ,and two childrens books, Crazy Horse and Custer and Young Brave. Powers appeared first on Anthropology News. McAllester.

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Towards an Anthropological Praxis of User Data

Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

PC Magazine concisely defines user data as “any data a user creates or owns,” but this flaunts the crux of user data’s ethical quagmire: to what extent do any users own their data? In other words, I found myself in the unusual situation of occupying both “realms”—industry and academic anthropology—simultaneously.

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